Behind Closed Doors

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Using an impressive range of source materials, including literary memoirs, the transcripts of burglary trials and upholsterer’s ledgers, Amanda Vickery provides a detailed insight to home life in Georgian England for a wide cross section of the society.

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Publish Date: 22/01/2019
ISBN: 9780300245721 Category:

Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 488 g
Dimensions 197 × 127 × 31 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xviii, 382 , 32 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

303.330942 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K