Behind closed doors: at home in Georgian England

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...

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1. Verfasser: Vickery, Amanda (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:XVIII, 382 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780300154535
9780300168969
9780300245721

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