The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America
by Harvey Green
University of Arkansas Press, 2003 eISBN: 978-1-61075-726-3 | Paper: 978-1-55728-760-1 Library of Congress Classification HQ1419.G73 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.4097309034
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ABOUT THIS BOOK From the greatest collection of American Victoriana comes a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago. Harvey Green culls from letters and diaries, quotes from magazines, and looks at the clothes, samplers, books, appliances, toys, and dolls of the era to provide a rare portrait of daily life in turn-of-the-century America.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Harvey Green is a professor of history and thedirector of the Public History Program at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 (Arkansas, 2000) and Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society 1830-1940 (Johns Hopkins, 1988). Mary-Ellen Perry was the principal curator of the exhibit "The Light of the Home: Middle-Class American Women: 1870-1910" at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
REVIEWS
"Green's lively text . . . is delightfully illustrated with pictures and artifacts." —Time
"A fascinating, lavishly illustrated, and very disturbing inventory of the means by which 'women's place' has been defined." --Washington Post Book World
"Harvey Green's Light of the Home is a rich portrait of Victorian domesticity and everyday life. Lively, accessible writing and evocative illustrations combine in this volume to convey a sense of nineteenth-century family relationships, women's experiences, and the material culture of the home." --Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (Owl Books, 1999) and Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Temple, 1987)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. "A Woman's Calling": Courtship and Marriage
Two. Madonna in the Nursery: The Cult of Motherhood
Three. Cleanliness and Godliness: The Tyranny of Housework
Four. Piano in the Parlor: Decorating the Home
Five. The Temple of Virtue: Health in Body and Mind
Six. Cycling and the Social Graces: The New Leisure
Seven. A Home in Heaven: Religion, Death, and Mourning
Eight. Epilogue
Notes
Index
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The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America
by Harvey Green
University of Arkansas Press, 2003 eISBN: 978-1-61075-726-3 Paper: 978-1-55728-760-1
From the greatest collection of American Victoriana comes a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago. Harvey Green culls from letters and diaries, quotes from magazines, and looks at the clothes, samplers, books, appliances, toys, and dolls of the era to provide a rare portrait of daily life in turn-of-the-century America.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Harvey Green is a professor of history and thedirector of the Public History Program at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 (Arkansas, 2000) and Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society 1830-1940 (Johns Hopkins, 1988). Mary-Ellen Perry was the principal curator of the exhibit "The Light of the Home: Middle-Class American Women: 1870-1910" at the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
REVIEWS
"Green's lively text . . . is delightfully illustrated with pictures and artifacts." —Time
"A fascinating, lavishly illustrated, and very disturbing inventory of the means by which 'women's place' has been defined." --Washington Post Book World
"Harvey Green's Light of the Home is a rich portrait of Victorian domesticity and everyday life. Lively, accessible writing and evocative illustrations combine in this volume to convey a sense of nineteenth-century family relationships, women's experiences, and the material culture of the home." --Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (Owl Books, 1999) and Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Temple, 1987)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. "A Woman's Calling": Courtship and Marriage
Two. Madonna in the Nursery: The Cult of Motherhood
Three. Cleanliness and Godliness: The Tyranny of Housework
Four. Piano in the Parlor: Decorating the Home
Five. The Temple of Virtue: Health in Body and Mind
Six. Cycling and the Social Graces: The New Leisure
Seven. A Home in Heaven: Religion, Death, and Mourning
Eight. Epilogue
Notes
Index
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