garden cities
gardens
gas: lighting; mantles; for cooking; increasing use
gemütlich see cosiness
German National Productivity Board
Germany: house design and usage; darkened interiors; on English sociability; and home comfort; architectural styles; Heimat museums; heating; post-war consumer goods; housing shortage and building post-1918; cleanliness and good housekeeping
gezelligheid see cosiness
Girl Guides
Gisborne, Thomas
Gish, Lillian
Glasgow: water consumption
glass: coloured and ornamental; in windows; toughened; Walter Benjamin advocates
Godwin, E.W.
Goncourt, Edmond de
Gothic revival
Gouge, William
Great Exhibition, London (1851)
Great Rebuilding (Britain)
Greek Revival (architecture): in USA
Greenfield Village, Michigan
Greifswald, Germany
Griffith, D.W.
Gropius, Walter
Gurlitt, Cornelius
Ham House, Surrey
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Harrison, William Henry
Hartman, Mary S.
Hasbrouck House, Newburgh, NY
Hashude Educational Settlement, Bremen
Hazelius, Artur
health: and diet; and escape from cities
hearth; taxes
heat and light: as essentials
heating: domestic; see also central heating
Heimbach, Wolfgang
Henri III, King of France
Henry III, King of England
Henry VII, King of England
Henry Ford Museum, Michigan
heritage industry
Higgins, John: The Mirror for Magistrates
Hill, Christopher
Hill, Rowland
Hogarth, William: The Rake’s Progress (engraving)
Holmes, Sherlock (fictional character)
Holy Roman Empire: decline
home: language variants; word meaning; archetypal; as shelter; women’s domestic status; ‘ideal’; centrality in life; technology; and modernism
Hooch, Pieter de
Hoosier kitchen
Houghton Hall, Norfolk
houses: segregation in; architect-designed; new; design; average occupation numbers; functional separation of rooms; terraced; as personal castles; family in; public/private occupation and use; maintenance effort and time; isolation; and front gardens; and display of goods; and votive offerings and rituals; vocabulary; additional decorative features; reconstruction and restoration; and supply pipes; and invisible commodities; prefabricated; suburban styles and design; ranch style; for living; and modernism; appearance; working-class
housewives: and good citizenship
housework; efficiency and professionalization of; and labour-saving devices
housing; social
How to Furnish a House and Make it a Home
Howard, Ebenezer: garden cities
Huguenots: as silk weavers
hutch see dressers
hygge see cosiness
hygiene
Ibsen, Henrik: Ghosts (play)
Ideal Home (magazine)
illegitimacy: rates
Industrial Revolution: beginnings and effects; and work-force; and overcrowding
inglenooks
insects: in houses
invisible commodities
Ireland: Spenser on
irons: electric
Italy: nuclear family; bedrooms; Renaissance palazzi
Jacobins
James, Henry
James I, King of England (James VI of Scotland)
Jamestown, Virginia
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Samuel: on cause and effect; on word ‘sash’
Kant, Immanuel
Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire
Kersting, G.F.: The Elegant Reader (painting)
kitchen gardens
kitchens: furniture; labour-saving devices; development and design; and hygiene; and water supply
Klein, Alexander: The Functional House for Frictionless Living
Klimt, Gustav
knives (table)
labour: division of; domestic work; costs
labour-saving devices
La Farge, John
lamps
land enclosure
land values
La Rochefoucauld, François, 6e Duc de
laundry
lavatories
Leech, John: ‘The Dining Room’ (cartoon)
Leiden: house design
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
levees (royal)
Lever Brothers: Sunlight factory
Levitt, William
Leyster, Judith: The Proposition (painting)
life expectancy
lighting: domestic; street; gas; electric
Lincoln, Abraham: log cabin
Lincoln Birthplace Historical Site, Kentucky
Lincoln Cathedral
linen
Locke, John; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
lodging
log cabins/houses
London: household possessions; street lighting; gas lighting; see also Great Exhibition
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Courtship of Miles Standish
longhouses
Loo, Het (palace), Netherlands
Loos, Adolf
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XV, King of France
Louw, Hentie
Lupino, Stanley
Luther, Martin
Lutyens, Sir Edwin
luxury goods: in Netherlands; display
Luynes, Charles Philippe d’Albert, Duc de
Lykov family (Old Believers)
Maes, Nicolaes
Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de
Manchester: contaminated water
manners: and courtesy books
Marie-Louise, Empress of Napoleon I
marriage: Northwest European Late-Marriage Pattern; reasons for; as contract and working arrangement; vows and consent; minimum age; middle-class; and possessions; and remarriage of widows
Martello, Pier Jacopo
Marx, Karl: on Robinson Crusoe
Marxism: on history
Mary II (Stuart), Queen of Great Britain
May, Ernst
Mayflower (ship)
medievalism
Metsu, Gabriel; Woman Reading a Letter (painting)
miasma theory (disease)
Middle Ages: open house
middle class: and marriage; and privacy; possessions
Milne, A.A.: The House at Pooh Corner
Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands
modernism
monasteries
Montebello, Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchesse de
Montespan, Françoise Athénaïs Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de
Morison’s Pills
Morning Chronicle (London)
Morris, William
Mothering Heart, The (film)
motor car: effect on privacy
Muncie, Indiana
Muthesius, Hermann
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor
nation-states: rise in Europe
National Trust (Britain); founded
neo-Gothic housing
Netherlands: paintings; as instigator of change; consumer revolution in; revolt against Spain (1648); and trade; marriage and family life; religion in; urbanization; celebration of births; close-stools; furniture; privacy; house design; window-curtains; gezelligheid; beds and bedding; cupboards; wars with England; possessions; cutlery; children; Oud Hollandsch (architectural style); children’s upbringing; heating; peat burning; windows; night watches and street lighting; servants; water supply
New York City: workpla
ces outside home; see also United States of America
New York Mercury
New York Times
Newton, Ernest
night watch
Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore)
Norwich, Norfolk: fireplaces
nostalgia
novel (fiction)
oil lamps
Old Alpine (architectural style)
Old Believers (Russian religious sect)
Olmsted, Frederick Law
open-plan architecture
original sin
Orkney, Scotland
ovens: for baking; see also stoves
Oxford: Charles II and court in
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
paraffin
Paris: abandoned babies; apartment blocks; street lighting; gas lighting; water usage; Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (1925); see also France
Parker, Barry
Parker, Geoffrey
parlour
patchwork see quilts
peat: as fuel
Penn, William
Pennsylvania: log cabins
Pepys, Samuel: on spitting; on family; on bedroom behaviour; installs bell for servants
Peto, John Frederick: Lights of Other Days (painting)
Philadelphia: average house occupation; Centennial Exhibition (1876); yellow fever outbreak (1790s)
Pinckney, Eliza
Pintard, John
Pitt, William, the Elder
plague: in Netherlands; see also epidemics
plantation: defined
plantation mansions (America)
Plimoth Plantation, Mass.
Plutarch
Plymouth, Mass.
Poitevin, Jean
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquis de
population: male–female proportions
porcelain: in Dutch homes; see also china
Port Sunlight, near Liverpool
Portugal: nuclear family
possessions; and social class; marked and decorated; display; increase in
Poundbury, Dorset
Pratt, Sir Roger
pressure cookers
privacy: personal; of home; and technological developments; and new technology; and open-plan living
privies: outside
Protestantism: and work ethic; and individualism; and marriage; and family; in France
Prussia: street lighting
public health
public houses (pubs)
Pugin, Augustus
Pyrex (glass)
Queen Anne style (architecture)
quilts
radio
Railway Sanitary Code (USA)
railways: and boarding schools
Ratcliffe, John
Red House, the, Kent
Reformation (Protestant); and family life
refrigerators
Rembrandt van Rijn: Night Watch (painting)
Renan, Ernest
Rhode Island: families
roasting
Roberts, Thomas
Rockefeller, John D.
Rohde-Liebenau, Alix
Roman Catholic church: on marriage; on original sin and sexual desire
Romanticism; and nostalgia
root-cellars
Rothschild family
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Émile
Royal Navy: defers use of fork
rushlights
St Gall monastery, Switzerland
Salt, Titus
Saltaire, Yorkshire
Sambourne, Linley
sanitation
Santa Fe, New Mexico
sash: as word; see also windows
Scandinavia: architectural styles
Scheffel, Joseph von
Schiller, Friedrich: Die Räuber
Schütte-Lihotzky, Margarete: Frankfurt kitchen
Scotland: marriage laws; house design; apartment buildings
Sears, Roebuck (mail order firm)
Seaside, Florida
servants: segregation; in Netherlands; and bells
sewing machines
Shakespeare, William: on toys; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, Norman
shopping: women and
shotgun houses
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of (‘Bess of Hardwick’)
sideboards see dressers
silk
slavery, slaves; quarters
Smith, Adam: on non-utility goods; The Wealth of Nations
Snow, Dr John
Soane, Sir John
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Britain)
sod-houses
sofas
Sorgh, Henrick: Portrait of Jacob Bierens and His Family (painting)
Spain: nuclear family
Spenser, Edmund
spermaceti oil
spinning-wheel: mythology of
spitting
spitting-sheets
spittoons
spoons
spring sickness
status (social)
stearine oil
Steen, Jan; A Peasant Family at Meal-time (painting)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stockholm: Skansen (open-air museum)
Stone, Lawrence
stoves: close ranges (cooking); porcelain (heating); Rumford; heating
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
suburbs
sugar
supply and demand
Sweden: house design and occupation; and Skansen (open-air museum); origins of log cabin; animal manure
tablecloths
tables
tableware
tallow see candles
Tawney, R.H.
Taylor, Frederick W.
tea
technology: effect on work and activities; increases privacy
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron
ter Borch, Gerard, the younger
Tessin, Nicodemus
textiles: increased availability
Thornbury Castle, near Bristol
Thorpe, John
thrift
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
tinder-boxes
Tinkham, Nehemiah and Submit
tinned foods
Toulouse: abandoned babies
toys
trade: Defoe on; with East; and availability of goods
transport: development
trenchers
Tring Park, Hertfordshire
Trollope, Anthony; Can You Forgive Her?
Trollope, Frances (Fanny)
Truman Show, The (film)
Tudor style (architectural)
Tussaud, Madame: waxworks
United States of America: suburban housing projects; illegitimate births; Great Rebuilding (18th century); log cabins; household numbers; enfilade design; women’s domestic duties; and front porch socializing; motor cars; cutlery in; children; architectural styles; popular journalism; nostalgic mythologies; textile fabrics in; central heating; gas lighting; exhibits dream house in post-war Germany; labour costs; kitchen design; labour-saving devices; water supply; bathrooms; and cleanliness; post-Civil War building; National Park Service; wilderness exploited; government housing programme; see also America, Colonial
Unwin, Raymond
upholstery; see also furniture
upper class: possessions
urbanization; in Netherlands; and overcrowding
van Dyck, Anthony
Vatican: Swiss Guards
verandas
Vermeer, Jan; The Concert (painting)
Versailles: furniture; lack of heating; window design
Vienna: apartment design; Museum für angewandte Kunst
villages: model
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Voysey, Charles
Walpole, Horace; The Castle of Otranto
Walpole, Sir Robert
Wars of the Roses
wa
shing machines
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
waste (human)
water supply and consumption
Webb, Philip
Weber, Max
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Noah
Wedgwood, Josiah: Etruria Works
Welsbach, Carl Auer von
widows, and remarriage
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
William III (of Orange), King of Great Britain
Williamsburg, Virginia
window-boards
windows; cleaning; sash
witch-hunts
Witte, Emanuel de: Interior with a Woman at a Clavichord (painting)
women: work; life expectancy; in Dutch genre paintings; domestic role and duties; and husband-murder; in French Revolution; as mothers; effect of technology on; shopping; isolation as housewives; ideal of; as water carriers; and good housekeeping
wood: for domestic lighting
Woodcraft League (USA)
Wordsworth, William
work: men’s and women’s; as payment; away from home; children; nutrition
working class: allocation of rooms; housing; and household economy
World, The (journal)
Wright, Frank Lloyd
yeast
Yosemite National Park, California
A Note on the Author
Judith Flanders, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (2003); the critically acclaimed Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006); The Invention of Murder (2011), which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Dagger; A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; and, most recently, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London (2012). You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Home Thoughts: An Introduction
Part One
1. The Family Way
2. A Room of One’s Own
3. Home and the World
4. Home Furnishings
5. Building Myths
Part Two
6. Hearth and Home
7. The Home Network
Coda: Not at Home
Illustrations