Full name: Behind closed doors: at home in Georgian England

Author: Amanda Vickery Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780300154535 9780300168969 0300154534 0300168969

In this brilliant new 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. Similar books: The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood Hubbub by Emily Cockayne The Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery Family Britain: 1951-57 by David Kynaston The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank Austerity Britain by David Kynaston Gentry by Adam Nicolson In Search of England by Michael Wood A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson The Kings and Queens of England by Nicholas Best Dr. Johnson's London by Liza Picard 1700 by Maureen Waller The Making of Victorian Values by Ben Wilson Customs in Common by E. P. Thompson Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard