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…

Around the House - Charles Dickens, Victorian Literature, and Vocabulary

Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott (9780817312541): Charles Strickland - BiblioVault

I. Victorian Women: Reality vs. Perception « Dangerous Ladies

Gallery of 12 Dollhouses That Trace 300 Years of British

Civil War Upset America's Idea of Victorian Domesticity, Things To Do

Victorian domesticity Louisa May Alcott is My Passion

Full article: Re‐gendering consumer agency in mid‐nineteenth‐century America: A visual understanding

Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of

The Cult of Domesticity – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers from the National Humanities Center

Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel, Kreilkamp

Susanna Ives My Floating World

Domesticity and Worldliness in the Victorian Period from the Cultural Studies Perspective – Open Culture

The Spectacle of Intimacy Princeton University Press