Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

"[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such drudgery was routine for the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Following the daily life of a middle-class Victorian house from roo...