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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Flanders |
| ISBN: | 0393052095 9780393052091 |
| OCLC Number: | 54001206 |
| Notes: | Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. |
| Description: | xxviii, 499 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Victorian house |
| Responsibility: | Judith Flanders. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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