1st Edition
Stories from Home English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850
By Margaret Ponsonby
Copyright 2007
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Most homes in the past were not elite, wealthy interiors complete with high fashion furnishings, designed by well-known architects and designers, as many domestic histories often seem to have assumed. As this book makes clear, there were in fact an enormous variety of house interiors in England during the period 1750-1850, reflecting the location, status and gender of particular householders, as... Read more
Introduction Reading Domestic Interiors, Past and Present; Part 1 Part I; Chapter 1 Provincial Homes; Chapter 2 Transient Homes; Chapter 3 Recycled Homes; Chapter 4 Extended Households; Chapter 5 Incomplete Households; Part 2 Part II; Chapter 6 Representations of Home;
Biography
Margaret Ponsonby is from the School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
’The strength of this volume lies in Ponsonby's archival research... Ponsonby has written a book from which historians of the domestic interior will greatly profit. Stories from Home signals a worthy new direction in the history of design.’ Journal of British Studies ’... its highly organized structure, meticulous endnotes and substantial bibliography make it a useful model for students to examine... An imaginative and interesting interpretation of fragmentary evidence that will prompt discussion, this study fulfils its primary aims [...] and presenting us with a picture of the lived experiences of the inhabitant.’ Journal of Design History ’Readers interested in material culture and Victorian domesticity will find much to enjoy and profit from in this study of provincial homes and their contents... Ponsonby's work is a model of thoughtful, responsible research.’ Victorian Studies ’This book’s attention to the ordinary practices of everyday life brilliantly fractures the still pervasive monolithic myth of Victorian domesticity.’ Cultural Geographies
