Provides period information on home furnishings, fashion, medicine, the courts, entertainment, shopping, travel, and etiquette.

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 u

The popular myth of Victoria's genteel history -- all upper-class colonists and Royal Navy dances -- is ripe for puncturing. Yes, there were the wealthy and the

In the Preface of the 5th Edition of Survey of Historic Costume, Tortora and Eubank conclude with the following: "In the history of dress at the beginning of th