Title: The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
Publisher: Liveright
Publication Date: 2020
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1631497634
ISBN 13: 9781631497636
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Dimensions: 3.302 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 24.384 centimeters depth
Weight: 608 grams

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“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. 70 black-and-white illustrations

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Ruth Goodman is the author of multiple books including How to Be a Victorian. An historian of British life, she has presented a number of BBC television series, including Tudor Monastery Farm. She lives in the United Kingdom.

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