Boston Victorians
Boston Victorians
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This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments... Flanders is unflinching on the realities of dirt, childbirth, women's bodies and serious illness. Her intelligent, and unromanticized scrutiny of Victorian domestic custom, etiquette and style will greatly enhance readers' understanding of the period's social history, its literature, and visual and decorative arts. Aware of the power of family life to determine attitudes toward gender, childhood, education and health... 24 pages of color illus. and b&w illus. throughout.
