Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England / Amanda Vickery.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xviii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Thresholds and boundaries at home -- Men alone : how bachelors lived -- Setting up home -- His and hers : accounting for the household -- Rooms at the top -- Wallpaper and taste -- The trials of domestic dependence -- A nest of comforts -- What women made -- A sex in things?
Subject Terms:
Households -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Great Britain -- History -- 1714–1837. | Social status -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Sex role -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Social control -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | England -- Social conditions -- 18th century.