Behind closed doors in Georgian England
By: Amanda Vickery.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300154535
Subjects: 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; Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837; England -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Description: "In this brilliant new 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; and, 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 18th 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." (<a href="http://www.yalebooks.co.uk/yale/display.asp?K=9780300154535">Source</a>.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: class: part
title: Thresholds and boundaries at home; class: part
title: Men alone : how bachelors lived; class: part
title: Setting up home; class: part
title: His and hers : accounting for the household; class: part
title: Rooms at the top; class: part
title: Wallpaper and taste; class: part
title: The trials of domestic dependence; class: part
title: A nest of comforts; class: part
title: What women made; class: part
title: A sex in things?