THE VICTORIAN HOME.

 Jenni Calder.

 B.T.Batsford, 1977.

 Crown 4to, 238 pages. In chapters on Order, Harmony and Comfort, Inside the Home, Working-Class Homes, Home-Making, The Domestic Ideal and the Domestic Prison, and on Children, Housing, and Taste & Status Jenni Calder presents us with a lively, well-researched and thought-provoking picture of life in the Victorian Home. Ranging from the philosophic to the practicalities of daily life, she covers the relationship between taste and society, ideals and money and status and morality in a way that is profoundly revealing of Victorian life and attitudes.

Apart from very light shelf wear and a price clipped dust jacket, both the book and the jacket are in very good condition. Contains over 100 photographs and illustrations.

ISBN 0 7134 0817 0.