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Index
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Aberystwyth, Wales
Adam, John and Robert
Adorno, Theodor
Aestheticism
air quality and pollution
Alberti, Leon Battista
Alden, John
Altdeutsch (architectural style)
America, Colonial: housing; families in; chairs in; household possessions; table manners; windows and glazing; use of candles; see also United States of America
American Revolution (1776); and revolt against imports
American Standard company
American Women’s Educational Association
Amerika zu Haus (exhibition, Berlin)
Amish people
Amsterdam: and change; as trade centre; and luxury goods; street lighting; abandoned babies
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
apartments: design; British distaste for; blocks
arc lighting
architecture: styles; and restoration and reconstruction; modernism; and ‘form follows function’
Argand lamp
aristocracy: in Britain
Art Deco
Arts and Crafts movement (Britain)
Asia: trade with Europe
astriers (tenants)
‘at home’; journalism
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
Austria: illegitimacy rates; apartment design; see also Vienna
babies: abandoned; furniture for
Baburen, Dirck van: The Procuress (painting)
bakehouses
Baltimore, Maryland: gas lighting
Bath, Somerset: buildings and contents
bathrooms
Batten, Sir William and Lady
Baudelaire, Charles: ‘The Painter of Modern Life’
Bauhaus
Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard of Oz
Bavarian style (architectural)
Bayberry: as fuel
bedding; see also furniture
Bedford Park, west London
beds and bedrooms
Beecher, Catharine
beeswax see candles
Beeton, Isabella Mary: Book of Household Management
Behne, Adolf
Belloc, Hilaire
Bendz, Wilhelm: A Smoking Party (painting)
Benjamin, Walter
Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne
Berlin: Museum für deutsche Volkstrachten und Erzegnisse des Hausgewerbes; gas lighting
Biedermeier (style)
Black Death
boarding schools
Book of Common Prayer: on marriage
books: children’s
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron
bottle-jack
Boulton, Matthew: Soho Manufactory
Bournville, Birmingham
Boy Scouts
bread and baking
Britain: marriage laws; illegitimate births; land enclosure; aristocracy; Great Rebuilding; antipathy to apartment blocks; architectural styles; population mobility; church-going; domestic heating; gas mains; servants; water supply; genre-painting; life expectancy; countryside and open spaces; government-housing programme; suburban house style; see also England; Scotland
British Medical Association
brooms
Buckingham, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of
buffet see dressers
Burr, Esther
but and ben (Scotland)
Cabell, Joseph
Cadbury’s (company)
Calvin, John
Calvinism
candle-making
candles; snuffers; taxed
Cape Cod, Mass.
capitalism: rise of
Carlyle, Thomas
carpets
Carter, Landon
Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France
Catholicism see Roman Catholic church
Celebration, Florida
central heating
chafing dishes
chairs
chamber-pots
Chambord, Château de
Charles II, King of Great Britain
Charles, Prince of Wales
Chesapeake, the, Virginia
chest-of-drawers (commode)
chests (trunks)
children: unmarried; factory work; work in home; celebrated in family; mortality rates; manners and behaviour; education and upbringing; historical view of; play and toys; books; dress; household items for; and loss of parent
chimneys
China: lacks consumer revolution
china; teaware
cholera
Christmas
Church, Frederick
churchgoing: in Britain
Civil War, American (1861–5): deaths from disease; and new building
class (social): differences; possessions
cleanliness: increase in
Cleanliness Journal
clocks: pendulum
coal: taxed in Britain; as domestic fuel
Cobbett, William
coffee
coinage: as currency
Coke, Sir Edward
Coleshill House, Berkshire
Collins, Wilkie
comfort
commode, and see chest-of-drawers
Commons Preservation Society (Britain)
consumerism; spread; debate over
cooking
cooking ranges
Cooper, James Fenimore; The Pioneers; Leatherstocking Tales (series)
Cooper, Mary
Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret); Towards a New Architecture
Cornwallis, Thomas
corridors
cosiness: as concept
Cottage style (architecture)
courtesy books
Cowper, William
Croatia
cupboards; built-in
cutlery
Davidis, Henriette
Davy, Sir Humphry
Defoe, Daniel: on trade; on Queen Mary; on luxuries; Robinson Crusoe
Delft, Netherlands
Devis, Arthur
Diderot, Denis: ‘Regrets for My Old Dressing Gown’
dirt and waste
disease: and germ theory; miasma theory
Disney Corporation
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dissolution of the Monasteries (England)
divorce
dolls
drawers see chest-of-draw
ers
dress: children’s; and personal hygiene
dressers
Dublin Castle: curtains
dugouts
Duran glass
Dürer, Albrecht
Dutch, the see Netherlands
Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Dutch West India Company
earthenware
East India Company (English)
East India Company (Dutch) see Dutch East India Company
Eaton, Theophilus
Edgeworth, Maria
Edison, Thomas
education: and original sin
Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648)
electricity: for lighting; and household appliances; for cooking; increasing use
enfilade design
England: as instigator of change; consumer revolution in; early trade; domestic privacy; social reserve; wars with Dutch; myth of family golden age; hearth tax (1662); brick chimneys; see also Britain
Enlightenment: and education
epidemics
Erasmus, Desiderius; On Civility in Children
Europe: risings and rebellions (17th century)
Eyck, Jan van: Arnolfini Wedding (painting)
Fabre d’Eglantine, Philippe François Nazaire
factories: and efficiency management
Falke, Jakob von: Die Kunst im Hause (Art in the House)
family: meanings; nuclear; in Netherlands; as ‘little commonwealth’; royal; size; in colonial New England; myth of golden age
feudalism: decline
fire: for heat and light
firelight
fireplace; hoods; see also hearth
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
flâneurs
floors: cleaning
Florence, Italy: abandoned babies
Flowerdew Hundred (Virginia plantation)
food: canning; and nutritional balance; preserving; processed
footwarmers
Ford, Henry
forks
France: family; marriage in; on English sociability; prohibitions on Protestants; chimneys; see also Paris
Frankfurt kitchen
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin fireplace
Frederick, Christine: The New Housekeeping Efficiency: Studies in Home Management
French Revolution (1789); women and
Friesland: housing
furniture: in Dutch interiors; ‘invisible’; and architectural plan; mobility; utilitarian; padded and upholstered; arrangement; light; and social class; display; and fashion; appearance