Victorians At Home And Abroad

Author : Paul Atterbury,Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050482796

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Victorians at Home and Abroad by Paul Atterbury,Suzanne Fagence Cooper Pdf

Published on the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, this illustrated book is an opportunity to revisit the achievements of the Victorian period, putting aside the attitudes and judgements of the 20th century. The Victorians were expansive, ambitious, imaginative and confident. Makers of the modernworld, their extraordinary vision provoked revolutions in art and culture, in society, in science and industry, and in international trade. Their figurehead was Queen Victoria, whose coronation in 1838 heralded the most exciting period in modern history, when Britain emerged as a major imperial power trading nation.

Author : John S. Goodall
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039015370

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Victorians Abroad by John S. Goodall Pdf

Author : Ehrick Kensett Rossiter,Frank Ayers Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486417743

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Authentic Color Schemes for Victorian Houses by Ehrick Kensett Rossiter,Frank Ayers Wright Pdf

Plates are generally for exterior painting, but a few plates are for interiors, i.e. fireplace surrounds, hallways, and ceilings.

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0393327639

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Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Pdf

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 : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958346

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How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

Author : Elizabeth Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:1327894366

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The Early Victorians at Home, 1837-1861 by Elizabeth Burton Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Pomada
Publisher : Studio
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780140238570

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America's Painted Ladies by Elizabeth Pomada Pdf

Now, the long-awaited companion to Painted Ladies, Daughters of Painted Ladies, and Painted Ladies Revisited is available in paperback. Presents a dazzling orgy of Victoriana inside and out with more than 400 color photographs of Painted Ladies across the country.

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000525017

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The Royal Victorians by Christopher Hibbert Pdf

Biography of King Edward VII of England (1841-1910).

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030140427

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Victorian Environmental Nightmares by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various “environmental nightmares” through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings, including social and moral). In some instances, natural or environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection demonstrate, “environmental nightmares” are not restricted to essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties about how humans might change their environments—and how these environments might also change humans.

Author : Neil Matthews
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834279

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Victorians and Edwardians Abroad by Neil Matthews Pdf

‘Victorians and Edwardians abroad: the beginning of the modern holiday’ reveals a story never told before: the early years of one of Britain’s leading modern travel agencies, the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). Created in 1888 within Britain’s first Polytechnic, the PTA was an emblem of the era. It served a growing mass of middle-class and lower middle-class consumers, who found for the first time that they had the time and money to take extended holidays, often abroad. This book explains the creation of the Polytechnic and the PTA, charting the expansion of the travel agency into continental Europe and beyond. ‘Victorians and Edwardians abroad’ uncovers the recollections of those who went on ‘Poly holidays’ before 1914: how they experienced the journeys, what they did when they reached their destinations and what they thought holidays should be about. For all the serious strictures from their social ‘betters’ about the educational and ‘improving’ aspects of travel, PTA holiday makers enjoyed themselves: liberating pork pies from train carriages, annoying foreign policemen and even beating the German Emperor to the last horses in town. Letters, articles and diaries of Poly holidays reveal a penchant for fun, even naughtiness, not often associated with the Victorians and Edwardians. Also included are a selection of postcards, photographs and promotional items from the PTA archives. Victorians and Edwardians abroad is a fascinating glimpse into holidays as they were, just over a hundred years ago.

Author : John Plotz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691135168

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Portable Property by John Plotz Pdf

What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readily travel abroad as personifications of Britishness. At the same time a radically new relationship between cash value and sentimental associations arose in certain resonant mementoes--in teacups, rings, sprigs of heather, and handkerchiefs, but most of all in books. Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.

Author : Peter H. Hoffenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317086192

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Oceania and the Victorian Imagination by Peter H. Hoffenberg Pdf

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.

Author : Blanche Cirker
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486138473

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Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color by Blanche Cirker Pdf

Exquisitely detailed, exceptionally handsome designs for an enormous variety of attractive city dwellings, spacious suburban and country homes, charming "cottages" and other structures — all accompanied by perspective views and floor plans.

Author : Janet Phillips,Peter Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317271734

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Victorians at Home and Away by Janet Phillips,Peter Phillips Pdf

First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Hilary Evans,Mary Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : England
ISBN : IND:30000007133915

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The Victorians at Home and at Work: as Illustrated by Themselves by Hilary Evans,Mary Evans Pdf

A selection of Victorian prints and drawings.