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The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed

By Judith , Flanders

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;Harper Perennial
Year
2013
ISBN
9780007404988, 0007404980
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1864714 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
Home economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th

Description

Overview: The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories – even lavatory paper – arrived slowly throughout the century, and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous. Many people today live in Victorian terraces, and so the houses themselves are familiar, but the lives are not. ‘The Victorian House’ will change all that.

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