Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England / Judith Flanders.

Main entry:

Flanders, Judith.

Title & Author:

Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England / Judith Flanders.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.

Description:

xxviii, 499 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-477) and index.
House and home -- 1. The bedroom -- 2. The nursery -- 3. The kitchen -- 4. The scullery -- 5. The drawing room -- 6. The parlor -- 7. The dining room -- 8. The morning room -- 9. The bathroom and the lavatory -- 10. The sickroom -- 11. The street.

Summary:

Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Judith Flanders's book is laid out like a Victorian house, taking you through the story of daily life from room to room. In each space she depicts the home's furnishings and decoration: from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery and kitchen, the separate male and female domains of the drawing room and the parlor, and ending in the sickroom. A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings fills the rooms with the people and personalities of the age.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0393052095 (hardcover)
9780393052091 (hardcover)
9780393327632
0393327639

Subject:

Families England History 19th century.
Home economics England History 19th century.
Middle class England History 19th century.
Familles Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Économie domestique Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Classes moyennes Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
HISTORY Social History.
Families
Home economics
Manners and customs
Middle class
Social conditions
Alltag
Haushalt
Mittelstand
Classe moyenne.
Coutume sociale.
Économie domestique.
Famille.
Histoire.
Société
Vie sociale.
19e siècle.
Époque victorienne.
England Social life and customs 19th century.
England Social conditions 19th century.
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Angleterre Conditions sociales 19e siècle.
England
Großbritannien
Angleterre.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233492
Call No.: HQ615 .F58 2004
Status: Available

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