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Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
"So fascinating that it yields at least one surprise--and often many more than that--on each page."
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Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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IN THE SEGREGATION that permeated the Victorian house, the reception rooms were always considered the main rooms-they presented the public face of the family, defining it, clarifying its status. Read the first page
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