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Author : Robin Guild,Vernon Gibberd
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015031201885
This guide combines historical information with design ideas and advice on how to decorate, renovate and maintain a vintage home.
Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317244776
First published in 1995. The essays in this volume demonstrate how Victorian women took up various positions along a continuum that ranged from the desire of Shelley’s creature for the power and acceptance it associated with the house to the rejection of Brontë’s heroine of the immobility and powerlessness she ultimately experienced there. More specifically the essays in this volume explore the nature of the Victorian woman’s domestic relations by centring in one activity that most informed her place in what was often the father’s house: housekeeping. The essays in this edition determine how writers, especially novelists, both male and female, used housekeeping to construct, reconstruct, represent, and inscribe the female self and condition. This title will be of interest to students of history and literature.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026614151
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.
Author : Kit Wedd
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1845132947
For any house-proud owner of a Victorian property this book represents a unique and invaluable resource. Packed with information about Victorian architectural ideas, it includes a wealth of practical advice about the maintenance and conservation of Victorian homes. Part One provides a concise overview of the development of the Victorian house, the wide range of architectural styles that came in and out of fashion over the period, and the lifestyles of the original owners the houses were designed to accommodate. Throughout, the emphasis is on family houses of various sizes rather than the great houses of the aristocracy, which are discussed only in relation to their influence on contemporary builders and architects. Part Two discusses structures and materials, covering brickwork, stone, renders and stuccos, roofs, woodwork, windows and doors, ironwork, and conservatories. In each case there is comprehensive advice on symptoms of trouble, techniques for preservation and restoration, and the correct choice of materials. Part Three covers services—fireplaces and chimneys, lighting, kitchens and bathrooms—all subjects requiring particular sensitivity to achieve a satisfactory compromise between preserving the spirit of the original building and meeting modern standards of comfort and convenience. Part Four examines all aspects of interior decoration, including plasterwork, decorative tiles, paint colors and finishes, wall coverings, curtains and blinds, and floor coverings. The book is completed by lists of further reading, places to visit, and useful addresses, including those of specialist suppliers and contractors, and sources of more detailed information and advice.
Author : Laura Wilson
Publisher : Preservation Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002330013
Presents photographs and sketches and explanations of life in a particular London house during the 19th century and includes a list of houses and museums which offer displays on aspects of Victorian life.
Author : Helen C. Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780750648486
'Victorian Houses' presents the architectural detailing of the time in the context of the era - providing a comprehensive understanding of its architecture and design. Pattern books played a vital role in the dissemination of taste between architect, builder and client in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. By focusing on the contribution of the pattern book to the architecture of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the various trends of the time are documented. The types of publications and other sources of taste available at different points over this period reflected social and economic factors, such as the changing demand or changes in organisation of manufacturing and retail. * Gain a comprehensive understanding of Victorian architecture from an experienced author * 160 pages of illustrations and an accessible writing style make this an excellent reference source * Discover invaluable information on the role of architectural pattern books in victorian design
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0393327639
Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing detailed descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the parlor, master bedroom, scullery, sickroom, and more. By the author of A Circle of Sisters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Judith M. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 1864010487
Author : Alan Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : House & Home
ISBN : UOM:39015012240910
Author : John Marshall,Ian Willox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614812648
Author : PatriziaDi Bello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351536431
This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. It is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Author : Anne Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1391906175
Author : Daniel Lewis,Kristin Helberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 048623908X
Open this book and you'll soon find yourself immersed in the wonderful gingerbread world of Victorian architecture and interior design. From a nostalgic introduction by John Philip Sousa III to the charming original illustrations of Daniel Lewis, The Victorian House Coloring Book invites children and colorists to re-create the furnishings, color schemes, and rich decorations of a lovely Victorian home. Comprising a complete household tour, these beautifully authentic illustrations depict the exterior, attic, front hallway, parlor, library, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, bathroom (including a water closet), and basement. In addition, a delightful double-page spread shows the garden with a gazebo. Typical of Victorian-era house, which often combined several architectural styles, the house shown here blends a simple Italianate exterior with such Second Empire features as a mansard roof and dormer windows. Other styles often featured in such homes include Queen Anne and Romanesque revivals, Carpenter Gothic and Stick, and Eastlake. A well-researched and informative text by Kristin Helberg accompanies each illustration, commenting on furnishings and architectural details and providing insight into the historical background and everyday life of the era. Dollhouse buffs, who consistently prefer the Victorian style to all others, will welcome this handsome book, while designers and illustrators will be especially pleased that all the illustrations are royalty free.
Author : Joan M. Brierton
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0879058870
An illustrated guidebook to restoring American Victorian houses. In this guide, Joan Brierton takes readers on a tour of five Victorian homes of different styles, and guides them through the historical, architectural and decorating issues that are found in all Victorian dwellings.
Author : Timothy L. Carens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000484885
Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to maintain a constant watch over their hearts, lest they become engrossed by human love, guilty of worshipping the creature rather than the Creator. Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel traces the concerns produced in Protestant culture by this broad interpretation of idolatry. In chapters focusing on Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy, this volume shows that even supposedly secular novels obsessively reenact an ideological clash between Protestant faith and human love. Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage.