| Description |
xviii, 382 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thresholds and boundaries at home -- Men alone -- Setting up home -- His and hers -- Rooms at the top -- Wallpaper and taste -- The trials of domestic dependence -- A nest of comforts -- What women made -- A sex in things? |
| Summary |
In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. She makes use of upholsterer's ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter |
| Subject |
Households -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Households. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837.
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1714-1837 |
| Subject |
Social status -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Social status. |
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Sex role -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Sex role. |
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Social control -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Social control. |
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Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Material culture. |
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England -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1837 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
0300154534 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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0300168969 (paperback) |
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9780300154535 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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9780300168969 (paperback) |
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