Daily life in a Victorian house

by Laura Wilson

Paper Book, 1993

Status

Check shelf

Call number

J 941.081 Wil

Genres

All Topics

Nonfiction

Collections

NONFICTION shelves (WHITE label), History

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, c1993.

Description

Daily Life in a Victorian House A child's "Upstairs, Downstairs," this thrilling journey back in time into the heart of a Victorian home uses a unique visual approach, with photographs of real objects from the past in close-up color to bring the period fully alive. Discover how a wealthy family and their servants really lived: how they dressed, what they ate, how they entertained. Daily Life in a Victorian House chronicles a day in the life of the Smith family, from the moment when the housemaid struggles wearily out of bed to light the fires, to the moment when the last candle is snuffed out and the house is once more at rest. Daily Life in a Victorian House looks in close detail at a typical upper-middle-class household and its social and historical background, combining original artifacts, clothes, and interiors with informative text to present an intimate portrait of a Victorian home.… (more)

Local notes

1403-168

User reviews

LibraryThing member wmorton38

A very interesting book. This is a short (48 pages), slightly oversized, heavily illustrated book dealing with what life was like for a typical Victorian family. The book tells (and shows) us what the house that the family (father, mother, 3 children, 3 servants & a dog) would be like, what they

would have eaten, how they would have dressed, what the relationships would have been like between parents and children, family and servants, family and friends (what dinner parties would have been like), etc. All kinds of fascinating details.

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