Old English Furniture and Its Surroundings
Author: MacIver Percival
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 298
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Author: MacIver Percival
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2016-09-14
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 1473357608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author: Edward Stratton Holloway
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Holme
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 526
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 592
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amanda Vickery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-11-17
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0300188560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 992
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