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Author Vickery, Amanda

Title Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England / Amanda Vickery
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Households -- England -- History -- 18th century
Social status -- England -- History -- 18th century
Sex role -- England -- History -- 18th century
Social control -- England -- History -- 18th century
Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Interior Design -- General.
Customs and Folklore.
Households
Material culture
Sex role
Social control
Social conditions
Social status
Haushalt
Alltag
Dagelijks leven.
Huishoudingen.
Sociale stratificatie.
Sekserol.
Interieurkunst.
Households -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Social status -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Social control -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056813
England -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043315
Subject England
Great Britain
England
Engeland.
Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Storbritannien -- historia -- 1714-1837.
England -- sociala förhållanden -- 1700-talet.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300188561
0300188560