The Victorian House by Judith Flanders

The Victorian House by Judith Flanders

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

‘Judith Flanders is the Mary Poppins of academic toil“Spit spot”, she says, and suddenly you have…amusing information…the delight of this book is the intelligence and freshness of its inferences.’ Lynne Truss, Sunday Times

‘A God-among-loo-books…here, the past is not so much a foreign country as another planet…there is not a single piece of trivia here that I don’t feel better for knowing.’ Time Out

‘An enthralling, entertaining and thought-provoking revelation of the realities of life in the tall, thin, Victorian town house.’ Evening Standard

‘This book is a splendidly entertaining read, and it also breaks new ground. No one has ever written so interestingly or wittily about housework.’ Spectator

‘Rich and well ordered, this study casts brilliant light…Curious facts tumble from the pages.’ Economist

Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed ‘A Circle of Sisters’ (2001) – a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin – which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and ‘Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England’ (2006). She is a frequent contributor to the ‘Daily Telegraph’, the ‘Guardian’, the ‘Evening Standard’, and the TLS.

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ISBN 13	9780007131891
ISBN 10	0007131895
Title	The Victorian House
Author	Judith Flanders
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2004-08-02
Number of pages	528
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