Material Relations

Jane Hamlett is Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London

• Introduction1. Inside the middle-class home: space and the limits of the private2. Material marriages: creating domestic interiors, defining marital relationships3. “Tiresome trips downstairs”: childhood experience and the domestic interior4. Leaving home: schools, colleges and lodgings5. Death, memory and the reconstruction of homeEpilogue: from Victorian to Modern?BibliographyIndex

Hamlett has uncovered the complexities of domestic relationships over the life cycle and, in so doing, has offered a more three-dimensional vision of lived experiences in the past., Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Northern Illinois University, Journal of British Studies, 1 April 2012|This is an interesting, worthwhile book which brings together a mass of recent research: it is robustly interdisciplinary in its approach while raising a series of important historical questions about our understanding of Victorian home life., Carol Dyhouse, University of Sussex, 1 June 2012