The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything

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The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything

Title remainder

how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything

Statement of responsibility

Ruth Goodman

Creator

• Goodman, Ruth, 1963-

Author

• Goodman, Ruth, 1963-

Subject

• Cooking, British
• Cooking, British -- History -- 19th century
• Great Britain
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
• History
• Home economics
• Home economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• 1800-1899
• Social change
• Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Stoves, Coal
• Stoves, Coal -- History -- 19th century
• Manners and customs
• Anecdotes

Genre

• History
• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

""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"--

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DLC

Dewey number

• 303.4830941
• 640

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult