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Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vickery, Amanda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Thresholds and boundaries at home
  • Men alone
  • Setting up home
  • His and hers
  • Rooms at the top
  • Wallpaper and taste
  • The trials of domestic dependence
  • A nest of comforts
  • What women made
  • A sex in things?