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Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England / Amanda Vickery.
LIBRA HQ615 .V53 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vickery, Amanda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Households--England--History--18th century.
- Households.
- Material culture.
- History.
- Social control.
- Sex role.
- Social status.
- Great Britain--History--1714-1837.
- Great Britain.
- 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.
- England.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 382 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300154535
- 0300154534
- OCLC:
- 317471846
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