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Behind Closed Doors - At Home in Georgian England (Paperback, New in Paperback)
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Behind Closed Doors - At Home in Georgian England (Paperback, New in Paperback)
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In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of
Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived
there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, 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. Vickery makes ingenious
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.
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