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The Victorian House Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

Paperback • 2004 • English

The Victorian House Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

By Judith Flanders

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About the book

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. 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...Show more

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ISBN

9780007131891

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

The Victorian House Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

Format

Paperback

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