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Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day
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Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day Hardcover - 2000

by Yaffa Draznin


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Through a detailed description of the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900, this study reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared. In marked contrast to the stereotypical depictions of Victorian women in literature and on television, Draznin reveals a woman seldom seen: the stay-at-home housewife whose activities were not much different than those of her counterparts today. By exploring her daily activities, how she cleaned her home, disciplined her children, managed her servants, stretched a limited budget, and began to indulge herself, one discovers the human dimension of women who lived more than a century ago. While most studies of this period consider values, aspirations, and attitudes, this book concentrates on actions, what these women did all day, to provide readers with a new perspective on Victorian life. Late-Victorian London was a surprisingly modern city with a public face of well-lit streets, an excellent underground railway system, and extended municipal services. In the home, gas stoves were replacing coal ranges and household appliances were becoming more common. Having both money to spend and a strong incentive to buy the new laborsaving devices, ready-to-wear clothing, and other manufactured products, the middle-class matron's resistance to change gave way to a rising consumer culture. Despite her nearly exclusive preoccupation with home and family, these urban women became agents for the modernization of Britain.

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The story begins, not in 1875 when the young lady set up residence in London as a newlywed, but twenty-five years before.

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  • Title Victorian London's Middle-Class Housewife: What She Did All Day
  • Author Yaffa Draznin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-11-30
  • ISBN 9780313313998 / 0313313997
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.87 x 1.01 in (21.84 x 14.91 x 2.57 cm)
  • Reading level 1760
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Social conditions, Middle class women - England - London -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99055116
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.436

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2001, Page 377
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 110

About the author

YAFFA CLAIRE DRAZNIN wrote this book while a Visiting Scholar of History at the University of Chicago 1996-1999./e She is an independent British Historian affiliated with the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, who returned to academia after 25 years as a published author and editor. She also writes Victorian murder mysteries.
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