A Victorian Household (Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks)

By Shirley Nicholson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1988 and now available in paperback, an account of life in a Victorian household, based on diaries kept by the lady of the house over a 33 year period. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750918268
• ISBN13: 9780750918268
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

immensely readable biography of a typical victorian woman

Ms. Nicholson deftly gathers some thiry years of diaries, letters and clippings and knowlegly weaves them into the great and small events in victorian england. Marion Sanborne, wife of Linley Sanborne the Punch illustrater, began a diary in 1881 and through it you get an understanding of what life was like for a woman who was neither famous or infamous. Fasinating insights into daily life. Visitors to London can visit her preserved home which houses the England Victorian Society. Ive read it through three times- love the problems with servants and linleys early use of photos