Material Relations

Jane Hamlett is Senior 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

'A lively, interesting and important book...Material Relations is a fine achievement. Engagingly written, attractively produced and generously illustrated.'Times Higher Education, March 17, 2011'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