{"product_id":"9780300245721","title":"Behind Closed Doors : At Home in Georgian England","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Vickery, Amanda, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/01\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages, 80 b-w + 25 color illus.,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Yale University Press,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Interior design, Social \u0026amp; cultural history\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780300245721\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWriting with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer's ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35020556075161,"sku":"9780300245721","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780300245721_a725c826-1c9c-4a2b-89bb-50f30ea7f49a.jpg?v=1601393745","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780300245721","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}