Victorian Domesticity

Whalebone gave women new work opportunities but it also subjected them to prescribed notions of domesticity.  Such was exemplified by the corset, which was made of whalebone and consequently one of the leading demands that fueled the whaling industry. Women began wearing “whaleboned bodies” during the sixteenth century when their cloth bodices began employing rigid…

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The Victorian Home, The Liberal Establishment, the Greeks and the Irrational

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Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott - Charles Strickland - Google Books

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Social Life in Victorian England

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