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Judith Flanders |
Tuesday 26 August 2003 |
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For middle class Victorians, the home was a microcosm of the ideal society, and it was the wife's job to keep it all ticking over in harmony ? to be, as Charles Dickens put it, 'the ministering angel to domestic bliss'.
91Èȱ¬ was also supposed to be a shrine to the husband's sorrows, joys and meditations ? a private place in contrast to his public sphere of work.
Judith Flanders joins Jenni to talk about her new book, The Victorian House, and domestic life from childbirth to deathbed.
The Victorian House is published by HarperCollins, ISBN number 0007131887
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