The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

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Judith Flanders. The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

THE VICTORIAN HOUSE. Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed. JUDITH FLANDERS

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. HOUSE AND HOME

1. THE BEDROOM

2. THE NURSERY

3. THE KITCHEN

4. THE SCULLERY

A FRIENDLY BIT OF CHIT-CHAT BETWEEN MRS. SCRUBWELL AND MRS. THRIFTY

5. THE DRAWING ROOM

6. THE PARLOUR

7. THE DINING ROOM

8. THE MORNING ROOM

9. THE BATHROOM AND LAVATORY

10. THE SICKROOM

11. THE STREET

APPENDIX 1. Mourning Clothes for Women* Wife for husband

Daughter for parent

Mother for child

Mother for infant

Wife for husband’s parents

Parent for son- or daughter-in-law

Parent for son- or daughter-in-law’s parent

Second wife for parent of a first wife

Daughter for stepmother

Sister for sibling

For sister- or brother-in-law

Second wife for brother or sister of a first wife

Granddaughter for grandparent

Niece for aunt or uncle

Niece for uncle or aunt by marriage

Niece for great-uncle or aunt

Aunt for nephew or niece

For first cousin

For second cousin

For husbands’ relations

For ‘connections’

APPENDIX 2. A Quick Guide to Books and Authors

APPENDIX 3. Currency

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

List of Integrated Images

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NOTES

PRAISE

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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For my mother, Kappy Flanders

TITLE PAGE

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Trollope was one of the finest arbiters of what made one suburb work and another a failure, although he admired, against the trend, the lawyer who was ‘one of those old-fashioned people who think a spacious substantial house in Bloomsbury Square, at a rent of a hundred and twenty pounds a year, is better worth having than a narrow, lath-and-plaster, ill-built tenement at nearly double the price out westward of the parks’.63

All of these suburbs, however remote, had one focus: the city they surrounded. However segregated, secluded and private, every morning the suburbs emptied as the workers headed off to the city, here watched by the journalist G. A. Sala:

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