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Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

Amanda Vickery
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Amanda Vickery 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.

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.
Format:
Pages:
382 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
3rd Edition, Second Edition.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300154534
ISBN13:
9780300154535
kindle Asin:
B00INUHI68

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

Amanda Vickery
3.92/5 (661 ratings)
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Amanda Vickery 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.

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.
Format:
Pages:
382 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
3rd Edition, Second Edition.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300154534
ISBN13:
9780300154535
kindle Asin:
B00INUHI68

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