Victorian House Keeping
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Keeping The Victorian House
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Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Keeping The Victorian House written by Vanessa D. Dickerson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with History categories.
First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian women took up various positions along a continuum that ranged from the desire of Shelley’s creature for the power and acceptance it associated with the house to the rejection of Brontë’s heroine of the immobility and powerlessness she ultimately experienced there. More specifically the essays in this volume explore the nature of the Victorian woman’s domestic relations by centring in one activity that most informed her place in what was often the father’s house: housekeeping. The essays in this edition determine how writers, especially novelists, both male and female, used housekeeping to construct, reconstruct, represent, and inscribe the female self and condition. This title will be of interest to students of history and literature.
The English Housekeeper Or Manual Of Domestic Management
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Author : Anne Cobbett
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-15
The English Housekeeper Or Manual Of Domestic Management written by Anne Cobbett and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Cooking categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management" by Anne Cobbett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Victorian House Keeping
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Author : Judith M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Victorian House Keeping written by Judith M. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture, Victorian categories.
The Modern Housewife Or M Nag Re
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Author : Alexis Soyer
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-18
The Modern Housewife Or M Nag Re written by Alexis Soyer and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Cooking categories.
The Modern Housewife Or Menagere is a cookbook by Alexis Soyer. It includes almost one thousand recipes for the efficient and thoughtful preparation of every meal of the day.
A Little Housekeeping Book For A Little Girl Or Margaret S Saturday Mornings
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Author : Caroline French Benton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
A Little Housekeeping Book For A Little Girl Or Margaret S Saturday Mornings written by Caroline French Benton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Fiction categories.
A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Caroline French Benton is a charming and practical guide for young girls on the art of housekeeping. With engaging and easy-to-follow instructions, Benton teaches essential skills and responsibilities, promoting a sense of independence and self-reliance. This delightful book is both educational and entertaining, making it an ideal resource for young readers.
Life In A Victorian Household
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Author : Pamela Horn
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-09-16
Life In A Victorian Household written by Pamela Horn and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with History categories.
What was it like to live in a Victorian Household? What time did the servants have to get up? What was the food like and who cooked it? How did the clothing differ for the different types of servants? How much did the servants get paid? This book shows you what it was really like to live in Victorian times, for those both above and below stairs.
Victorian House Keeping
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Author : Judith M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Victorian House Keeping written by Judith M. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Architecture categories.
Mind Your Manors
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Author : Lucy Lethbridge
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Mind Your Manors written by Lucy Lethbridge and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with House & Home categories.
The author of Servants tells us what made British households, of all sizes, shine. British estates were known to be the epitome of cleanliness with their white-glove perfection. Through her meticulous research on servants, Lucy Lethbridge gleaned much knowledge about how these homes were made to gleam over almost two centuries, from the Victorian through the Edwardian years and beyond. The majority of household tasks were done with basic ingredients like lemon juice, white vinegar, and bicarbonate of soda, which feel very modern in their display of frugality and ecological soundness. Tea leaves were used to freshen up rugs and stewed rhubarb to remove rust stains. Here, Lethbridge reveals these old-fashioned and almost-forgotten techniques that made British households sparkle before the use of complicated contraptions and a spray for every surface. A treasury of advice from servants’ memoirs and housekeeping guides, and illustrated with charming art from period advertising and domestic classics, Mind Your Manors is the perfect book for all those who want to put time-tested cleaning methods to work.
Victorian Household Management Es 5 Vol Set
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Author : Yoriko Imata
language : en
Publisher: Edition Synapse
Release Date : 2012-07
Victorian Household Management Es 5 Vol Set written by Yoriko Imata and has been published by Edition Synapse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Cooking categories.
A facsimile collection of six household and cookery manuals published in mid-Victorian Britain. An extremely valuable source of information for those studying Victorian life / culture and history of women. From the preface by Nicola Humble--- The nineteenth century saw a dramatic increase in the number of manuals of cookery and household management published in Britain, with such books becoming a significant part of the publishing industry, the mainstay of many an entrepreneurial publisher’s list. The most famous is Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861), which sold more than 60,000 copies in its first year of publication and nearly two million by 1868, but many other such manuals appeared in this century, particularly in the period from the 1840s to the 1880s. Works such as Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845) (from which Isabella Beeton copied widely and unashamedly), Alexis Soyer’s The Modern Housewife (1849), and Henry Southgate’s Things a Lady Would Like to Know (1874). A new market for such books existed because of the extreme and all-embracing social changes that took place during these decades. More and more of the population moved into large towns or to the rapidly growing suburbs on their outskirts. They lost touch with the rural economy with its virtuous circle of food production and consumption and were faced with a vast and increasing array of commercial food products, many imported from the colonies. The new rising middle class, to whom most of these publications were addressed, lived very different lives from their parents and grandparents, in tall narrow townhouses, where the industrial soot and grime necessitated extra cleaning, where food of unknown origin was supplied by numerous, potentially unreliable tradespeople, and where neighbours were strangers to each other unless an elaborate system of calls was initiated. Husbands travelled into the centre of London and other large cities to work and took their midday and often their evening meal in town, in the chop-houses that were growing up to service this new commuter class. Women in the mid-century needed advice on how to manage every detail of their homes and lives because it was all so unfamiliar, and the well-meaning guidance of the past simply did not apply any more. The new household manuals speak to that anxiety, reassuring and explaining, offering new systems and strategies, and dealing with the all-important task of managing servants. The middle class tripled in size between 1851 and 1871 and the vast majority of these newly middle-class people were at the very lowest end of the middle class, living on annual household incomes of between £100 and £300. They were almost certainly the first generation of their families to have employed servants, and were extremely anxious about the process. One of the main functions of the household manual was to simplify and demystify this new role. Another major function of the household manual was also intimately connected to class: that of consolidating and maintaining the family’s social position. It was very clear to all mid-Victorians that economic and social status could ‘turn on a sixpence’: that a calamitous fall in social status was as likely as a miraculous rise. Household manuals and cookbooks for the middle classes devote a considerable amount of space to the activity of entertaining, which was seen as a crucial element in advancing both the husband’s career and the social status of the family. A significant proportion of the household’s monthly income would be devoted to this activity, and enormous anxiety is felt, not unreasonably, about getting it right. It is for this reason that there are so many scenes of disastrous dinner parties in Victorian novels – not because the dinner party was a commonplace event, but precisely because it was new and awkward and desperately important – a key social ritual for which the rules were still evolving. Household manuals seek to lay down those rules, to determine the right way of doing it, and to remove some of the anxiety from the proceedings (though the very detailed instructions seem as likely to have had the opposite effect). The household manuals and cook books of the nineteenth century are unlike their modern equivalents in their inclusivity. They are more like bibles than coffee-table books in that each aims to cover every possible eventuality: every household query, every possible dish. Their publishers could not have foreseen the modern market in which consumers buy multitudes of cook books and hardly cook from them at all. The Victorian household was assumed to need only one household manual: and each manual aimed to be the one that they needed. This accounts for two elements we find in these books: both the encyclopaedic impulse that leads many of them to include every possible topic, however vaguely related to their central concerns, and the impulse that leads them to compete with their earlier rivals by incorporation, lifting their recipes and much of their material wholesale. This procedure – to us simply naked plagiarism – is complained of by Eliza Acton in her preface to Modern Cookery, but such complaints were clearly not taken seriously, and for the next decades writers and publishers happily borrow from each other with seeming impunity. Indeed, the authorship of these manuals is much less clear cut than we might expect. Many are put together as ‘packages’ by publishers, pulling together the work of a number of contributors, and many – including Beeton’s book – are derived from material first published in periodicals, with recipes often collected from readers’ contributions. The Practical Housewife (1855), published by Ward, Lock (who were later to amass a considerable fortune when they bought the rights to Household Management from a grieving Sam Beeton after his wife’s premature death), is ‘written’ by the unnamed editors of The Family Friend periodical and is declared on its title page to be ‘the result of hundreds of valued contributions accumulated and approved during the last seven years’. Regardless if written by one author or many, the voice of these books is broadly similar: they aim for a matronly authority, a measured, experienced domestic wisdom which is often dramatically at odds with the real lives of the actual authors. There is a key paradox in the fact that these texts, which so firmly establish the notion of domestic labour as appropriate and fulfilling work for women are written mostly by women who lived very different lives, working as journalists and editors, often unmarried, and rarely possessed of the wealth of domestic experience their books imply. This disparity points to a fact that we must always bear in mind when reading cookbooks and household manuals: that they are texts, constructed discourses, not clear windows onto the households of the past. These books cannot be used as straightforward guides to the diet or social and domestic practices of nineteenth century Britain. They are not descriptions of living practices, rather, they are interventions, attempts to alter domestic practices, to lay down new rules, to offer a wealth of new dishes. We might note, for example, just how many English cookbooks down the centuries begin their chapter on soup with a description of the highly superior soup-making culture of the French and a suggestion that the British should imitate their example: this is not a reflection of current practice, it is an attempt to get readers to change their domestic habits: to do better. We cannot know if many people followed the advice or cooked the recipes in these books, though it is my contention that people actually cook far fewer recipes than we would expect from cook books. So why and how should we read these texts, and what can they tell us? I think that they tell us a great deal about the fears and fantasies of their readers. As a highly market-led form, these books are very responsive to the immediate needs of their readers, and often reflect their concerns in a very naked form. The snobberies and social tensions, the fears (of adulterated foods, of deceitful shop-keepers, of dishonest or vicious servants) and the dearly-held ambitions of the mid-Victorians speak to us very directly from the pages of these books. The tension between their nascent religious faith and the rapid, contradictory advance of science; their obsessive interest in and respect for history; the growing desire of women to work, to be educated, to hold a larger place in the world; the intensely contradictory feelings – torn between fear and pity – of the middle classes for the poor: all of Victorian culture is here, buried amid the recipes and the advice.
Raising The Dust
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Author : Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Raising The Dust written by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Raising the Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls "literary housekeeping." The three writers she examines rejected turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to "set the human household in order." To Mary Augusta Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, housekeeping represented public responsibilities: making the food supply safe, reforming politics, and improving the human race itself. Raising the Dust places their writing in the context of the late-Victorian era, in particular the eugenics movement, the proliferation of household conveniences, the home economics movement, and decreased reliance on servants. These changes affected relationships between the domestic sphere and the public sphere, and hence shaped the portrayal of domesticity in the era's fiction and nonfiction. Moreover, Ward, Grand, and Gilman articulated a domestic aesthetic that swept away boundaries. Sutton-Ramspeck uncovers a new paradigm here: literature as engaging the public realm through the devices and perspectives of the domestic. Her innovative and ambitious book also connects fixations on cleaning with the discovery of germs (the first bacterium discovered was anthrax, and knowledge of its properties increased fears of dust); analyzes advertising cards for soap; and links the mental illness in Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" to fears during the period of arsenic poisoning from wallpaper.