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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders |
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A wealth of detail--from advice books such as Mrs Beeton's cookbooks, novels, contemporary magazines and autobiographies--is crammed into each room. This is more than an inventory of interior design. Flanders uses the house as a base from which Victorian attitudes towards servants, marriage, illness, death and religion can be explored. There remains a small quibble: this book should really be titled "The Middle-class House of Victorian London". We are not taken to any provincial homes. And a question mark remains over how representative Flanders' rather grand Victorian house is, heaving as it does with servants, hot water and ornate furnishings. As she herself notes, few Victorian families could afford more than one servant at the very most, many married couples still lived with their older relatives and hardly anyone owned their own home. --Miles Taylor
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Sunday Times
'Flander's pleasing anecdotal, with discerning use of contemporary source material, enables us to empathise with the exhaustion and the ennui.'
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