The Victorian House : Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed - Hardcover

Flanders, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007131887 ISBN 13: 9780007131884

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Flanders, Judith

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed A Circle of Sisters (2001), nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Evening Standard and the TLS.

Review:

Praise for A Circle of Sisters 'A Circle of Sisters is a revelation. The MacDonald sisters, each interesting in herself but also an astonishing foursome, blow away all the tired platitudes about 'Victorian women'. Judith Flanders recreates their extraordinary lives with sympathy and insight.' Roy Porter 'This is a terrfic book -- a biography of four remarkable sisters, all at a go, and also a pageant-like exhibition of Victorian artistic and middle-class life, public and domestic. The astonishing skill of its complex narrative, and the sustaining wealth of allusion and social comment, make it seem almost incidental that one of the sisters should have been the mother of a Prime Minister and another the mother of Rudyard Kipling.' Jan Morris 'A most impressive debut: a scholarly, entertaining, constantly interesting biography.' William Trevor 'A scintillating debut. The author gives fascinating insights into the lives of this brilliant group, holding her huge cast of characters firmly controlled and vividly realized in a finely maintained structure -- no small feat -- as she weaves her complex web of relationships, beliefs, values and social mores. An engrossing chronicle. I turned the last pages of this real tour de force, with its ingenious mix of turbulent private lives and fascinating background material, with real regret, and its aroma has haunted me for days.' Penelope Hughes-Hallet

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007131887
• ISBN 13: 9780007131884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512