Title Stories from home : English domestic interiors, 1750-1850 / Margaret Ponsonby

Published Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007

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Description x, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series History of retailing and consumption History of retailing and consumption. Contents Introduction : reading domestic interiors, past and present -- 1. Provincial homes -- 2. Transient homes -- 3. Recycled homes -- 4. Extended households -- 5. Incomplete households -- 6. Representations of home -- App. Homemakers and tradespeople Summary "Combining cultural history and qualitative analysis of evidence, this book presents a new way of looking at 'ordinary' and 'provincial' homes that enriches our understanding of English domestic life of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 18th century. Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043323 England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043324 LC no. 2006005437 ISBN 0754652351 alkaline paper

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