Bibliograph

Behind closed doors, at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery

Type

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Behind closed doors, at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Behind closed doors

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1089631582

Responsibility statement

Amanda Vickery

Sub title

at home in Georgian England

Summary

In this book, 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

Table Of Contents

Thresholds and boundaries at home -- Men alone : how bachelors lived -- Setting up home -- His and hers : accounting for the household -- Rooms at the top -- Wallpaper and taste -- The trials of domestic dependence -- A nest of comforts -- What women made -- A sex in things?

Target audience

adult

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