Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England - Brossura

Flanders, Judith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393327639 ISBN 13: 9780393327632

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005

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Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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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 to resurrect an age so close in time yet so alien to our own. 100 illustrations, 32 pages of color.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393327639
• ISBN 13: 9780393327632
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 499