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…

Girl on Fire – Confluence

Abba Alcott's contribution – behind every great woman stands a mother

TWO SPHERES OF DOMESTICITY. Steel engraving, 19th century

Victorian Woman Child Cat And The Teatable High-Res Vector Graphic

Social Life in Victorian England

Dogs and Domesticity Reading the Dog in Victorian British Visual

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England / Edition 1 by John Tosh, 9780300123623, Paperback

Civil War Upset America's Idea of Victorian Domesticity

The Ideal Girl in Industrial England – William Powell Frith's

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