This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.
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The Working Class at Home 1790-1940, uncovers hidden aspects of the domestic lives of the working-class in the long nineteenth century. ... The Working Class at Home both combines and builds upon these scopes and sources it reminds us the diversity of working class people . Bearing in mind the complications of uncovering authentic histories of working-class people but navigated so well in this book ... . (Tanya Hawkes, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, charleslambsociety.com Issue 176, Winter, 2022)
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1 Introduction: The Working Class at Home, 1790--1940 |
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2 `I can barely provide the common necessaries of life': Material Wealth over the Life-Cycle of the English Poor, 1790--1834 |
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3 Politicising the English Working-Class Home, c. 1790--1820 |
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4 Pulling Back the Covers: Uncovering Beds in the Victorian Working-Class Home |
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Part II The Emotional and the Exterior Home |
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5 Spaces of Girlhood: Autobiographical Recollections of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Working Class |
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6 Songbirds in East London Homes, from Henry Mayhew to Charles Booth |
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7 Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits, and Me Dad's Geraniums: The Use and Meanings of Yards, Gardens and Other Outside Spaces of Urban Working-class Homes, 1890--1930 |
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Part III Home Beyond Home |
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8 Diligence and Dissipation: The Maid Servant's Bed Chamber in the Late Eighteenth Century |
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9 Pauper Lunatics at Home in the Asylum, 1845--1906 |
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10 Flexible, Portable and Communal Domesticity: Everyday Domestic Practices of Finnish Sailors and Logging Workers, c. 1880s to 1930s |
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| Appendix 1 Inventory of the goods in the possession of Mr and Mrs Mills, 1799 |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Vicky Holmes is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK in association with the Centre for Studies of Home. Her Palgrave Pivot, In Bed with the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage, was published in 2017.
Joseph Harley is Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has recently published Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834 (2020) and has articles in various journals including Agricultural History Review, Historical Journal and Social History.
Laika Nevalainen is a historian of everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Finland.
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