Bibliograph

Behind closed doors, at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery

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Behind closed doors, at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Behind closed doors

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Amanda Vickery

Sub title

at home in Georgian England

Summary

From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter, a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. 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

Target audience

adult

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