Behind Closed Doors

Amanda Vickery

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication Date : 31/10/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Vickery unlocks the homes of English men and women, from the mansion of Anne Dormer in the 1680s to the dreary London lodgings of Anthony Trollope in the 1830s. Delves into fifty archives, to reveal the role of house and home in power and status during the Georgian period.

Publisher's description:

Reveals the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. This work 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; and, servants with a locking box to call their own.

ISBN: 9780300154535