Inside the Victorian Home (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Flanders
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: About 1850-1890
- Setting: England (primarily London and its suburbs)
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Family or family life, Wives, Mothers, Nineteenth century, Middle classes, England or English people, Women’s issues, Women, Domestic work or workers, Servants, Home, Entertaining or entertainers, Homemakers, Houses, mansions, or manors, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: England
Inside the Victorian Home is an encyclopedic survey of the details of middle-class home life in London and its suburbs during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary writings, Judith Flanders has assembled a room-by-room discussion of appliances, furniture, and interior decoration, and typical daily activities and social expectations among the Victorian middle class. Flanders concentrates on the wives, daughters, and sisters who spent most of their time indoors and were expected to manage their households according to religious and...
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