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A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne (Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks) [Paperback]

Shirley Nicholson (Author)

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Publication Date: 22 April 1998 | ISBN-10: 0750918268 | ISBN-13: 978-0750918268 | Edition: New edition
An intimate and absorbing account of the inner lives and thoughts of a middle-class Victorian family, as told through the diaries of Marion Sambourne. Marion Sambourne was born in 1851 and died a few days before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. She married the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne an was absorbed into an artistic circle which included Tenniel, du Maurier, Watts, Crane, Grosssmith, Rider Haggard, Bret Harte and Gilbert. She kept her diary for thirty-three years and it records not only what she did, but the minutiae of daily life in a Victorian household: where she shopped, what the family ate, who came to call. These diaries are of enormous interest because the house where she lived all her married life - 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington - is now, thanks to the efforts of the Victorian Society, a perfectly preserved museum of everyday bourgeois life in high Victorian England.

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4.0 out of 5 stars immensely readable biography of a typical victorian woman 30 May 1998
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Ms. Nicholson deftly gathers some thiry years of diaries, letters and clippings and knowlegly weaves them into the great and small events in victorian england. Marion Sanborne, wife of Linley Sanborne the Punch illustrater, began a diary in 1881 and through it you get an understanding of what life was like for a woman who was neither famous or infamous. Fasinating insights into daily life. Visitors to London can visit her preserved home which houses the England Victorian Society. Ive read it through three times- love the problems with servants and linleys early use of photos
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Victorian Household 2 Feb 2011
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I had previously read this book from my library and really enjoyed it , It gives a lot of personal details about the family living in the home, so when I got a chance to buy it I did I also have anothr book which deals with this family up into the 1980s so this just added to my collection..
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