The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told
through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century
men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably
distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation
in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat
in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in
boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely
performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge
of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves,
flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout
the century, and most were luxuries available only to the
prosperous. Judith Flanders, author of the widely acclaimed 'A
Circle of Sisters', has written an incisive and irresistible
portrait of Victorian domestic life. The book itself is laid out
like a house, following the story of daily life from room to room:
from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery,
kitchen and dining room - cleaning, dining, entertaining - on
upwards, ending in the sickroom and death. Through a collage of
diaries, letters, advice books, magazines and paintings, Flanders
shows how social history is built up out of tiny domestic details.
Through these we can understand the desires, motivations and
thoughts of the age. Many people today live in Victorian terraces,
and so the houses themselves are familiar, but the lives are not.
'The Victorian House' will change all that.
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