We go all cozy this episode of Making of a Historian. So break out the blankets and the hot chocolate, and get ready to hear about the gendered division of labor of the Victorian home!
You can read Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management on the internet.
Examples of Mrs. Beeton's delicious delicacies
Laundry, still sucks
Theme music by Jonathan Lear.
Logo by Duncan Barton.
Here's the books that taught me the things I told you:
Deborah Cohen,Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
John Gillis,A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values
James Vernon, Hunger: A Modern History
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