The domestic revolution : How the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything / Ruth Goodman.
"The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea : it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century-from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries : from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781631497636
- ISBN: 1631497634
- Physical Description: 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, 2020.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Table of Contents
The Domestic Revolution : How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Foreword | p. ix | |
Introduction | p. xv | |
Chapter 1 | Living off the Land | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 | Out of the Woods | p. 21 |
Chapter 3 | The Draw of Coal | p. 58 |
Chapter 4 | London, Transformed | p. 88 |
Chapter 5 | The Spreading Blaze | p. 109 |
Chapter 6 | Cooks' Tools | p. 137 |
Chapter 7 | A New Menu | p. 168 |
Chapter 8 | Cleaning-Up | p. 216 |
Chapter 9 | The Domestic Burden | p. 264 |
Conclusion | p. 297 | |
Acknowledgements | p. 303 | |
List of Illustrations | p. 305 | |
Bibliography | p. 310 | |
Index | p. 322 |