Inside the Victorian Home A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Name: Inside the Victorian Home A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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ISBN: 9780393327632

ISBN-10: 0393327639

ISBN-13: 9780393327632

Edition: 2006

Authors: Judith Flanders

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"[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."--Katherine A. Powers, "Boston Sunday Globe" Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Following the daily life of a middle-class Victorian house from room to room--from childbirth in the master bedroom through the kitchen, scullery, dining room, and parlor, all the way to the sickroom--Judith Flanders draws on diaries, advice books, and other sources…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 554
Size: 7.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



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Introduction: House and Home



The Bedroom



The Nursery



The Kitchen



The Scullery



The Drawing Room



The Parlor



The Dining Room



The Morning Room



The Bathroom and the Lavatory



The Sickroom



The Street


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