Inside the Victorian Home

Inside the Victorian Home
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393052091

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.

The Victorian House

The Victorian House
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

A middle class home, circa 1850, of the sort that many people live in today, is the focus of Judith Flanders' book. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.

Food and Flavor

Food and Flavor
Author: Henry Finck
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2008
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429011092

In this 1913 work, Henry Finck introduced gastronomy to Americans. Finck's argument for cultivating an appreciation for natural, whole, American-grown foods is thoroughly modern in its approach.

Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms

Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms
Author: Wizards RPG Team
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780786960347

Offers a comprehensive description of the Forgotten Realms, one of the most well known Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

The Middle Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom
Author: Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1317949889

First published in 2009. This work by S. Wells Williams is a complete look at the Chinese Empire during the mid-nineteenth century. Subjects include the divisions of the Empire, geographical descriptions, religion and art, literature, the second war between Great Britain and China and social life among the Chinese. This is Volume one of two.