This volume of primary source materials documents the nature of the home and the theories and discussions around the concept. It examines the class divisions that become evident with the ostentatious lifestyles of political and society hostesses at the peak, whilst middle-class housing often in suburbia, seemed to have created a separation of home and work, arguably suggesting men and women lived in separate spheres. Working-class interiors, often seen the eyes of middle-class observers, were at the bottom of the hierarchy and often reflected concerns of social inequality and misery. The documents also address the process of purchasing and decorating a home, advice on decoration and home management, the nature of taste and comfort, and the symbolic roles of the home as an anchor in society. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history.
This volume of primary source materials documents the nature of the home and the theories and discussions around the concept. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history.
Volume
1. Theories, Discourses and Advice around the Home
Part
1. Aesthetics and Beauty
1. Ebenezer Trotman, Some Remarks on Architectural Design, as Affecting the
Inferior Arts Connected with Building, Architectural Magazine, January 1835,
pp. 3-7
2. William Morris, Making the Best of It, A Paper read before the Trades
Guild of Learning and the Birmingham Society of Artists, in W. Morris, Hopes
and fears for art: Five lectures, (London: Ellis & White. 1879), Extract, pp.
130-38
3. R. W. Arne, Art in Domestic Matters; or Ęsthetics in the House, The
Ladies Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature, 1
January 1881, pp. 20-21,
and 1 April 1881, pp. 215-6
4. Maria O. Dewing, Beauty in the Household (New York: Harper & Brothers,
1882), pp.1-10
5. Maria O. Dewing, Beauty in the Household (New York: Harper & Brothers,
1882), pp. 39-50
6. Robert W. Edis. Principles of Interior Decoration, in Murphy, S. F.
1883). Our Homes and how to make them Healthy. [ Papers on sanitary subjects.]
Edited by S.F. Murphy, (London: Cassell & Co., 1883), pp. 319-324
Part
2. Taste
7. Shirley Hibberd, Homes of Taste, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste;
and Recreations for Town Folk in the Study and Imitation of Nature (London:
Driffield 1856), pp. 1-8
8. [ Anon], Mr. Eastlake on Taste, Building News, 19 March (1869), pp. 260-1
9. [ Anon], Principles of Good Taste in Furniture, Cassells Household
Guide, 1869, Vol 3, pp. 75-9
10. Edward E. Salisbury, Principles of Domestic Taste: A Lecture delivered in
the Yale School of the Fine Arts, Reprinted from the New Englander, April
(1877), pp. 5-7
11. [ Anon], Principles of Good Taste in Furniture and Decoration,
Englishwomans Domestic Magazine, 1:5, 10 Jan.1880), pp. 65+
12. Elsie De Wolfe, Suitability, Simplicity and Proportion, The House in
Good Taste, (New York: The Century Co.1913), pp. 17-26
13. George L. Hunter, Good and Bad Furniture, Home furnishing: Facts and
figures about Furniture, Carpets and Rugs, Lamps and Lighting Fixtures, Wall
Papers, Window Shades and Draperies, Tapestries, Etc. (New York: J. Lane,
1913), pp. 17-23
Part
3. Decorating advice
14. Thomas Sheraton, Furnish The Cabinet Dictionary (London: W. Smith,
1803). Pp. 215-9
15. Humphrey Repton, & J. C. Loudon, The Landscape Gardening and Landscape
Architecture of the late Humphrey Repton, esq., (London: Printed for the
editor,1840), pp. 455-61
16. [ Anon], Hints for the Decoration and Furnishing of Dwellings, Journal
of Design and Manufactures, Vol 2, 1849-50, pp. 17-22
17. M. B. H., Home Truths for Home Peace, or "Muddle" Defeated, A Practical
Inquiry Into what Chiefly Mars or Makes the Comfort of Domestic Life.
Especially Addressed to Young Housewives by M. B. H., (London: Longman Brown,
1854), pp. 61-67
18. Joseph Beavington Atkinson, The Arts in the Household; Or, Decorative
Art Applied To Domestic Uses, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, 105:641, 1869,
pp. 361-366
19. Joseph Beavington Atkinson, Interior Decoration of the House The
Influence Of Art in Daily Life, Good Words, 21, January (1880), pp. 418-42
20. J. Moyr. Smith, Ornamental Interiors Ancient & Modern (London: Crosby
Lockwood and Co. 1887), pp.76-87
21. John A. Heaton, Decoration of the House, Beauty and Art (London:
Heinemann 1897), pp. 91-100
22. Martha Cutler, What to Avoid in House-furnishing, Harpers Bazaar, 41,
May 1907, pp. 484-488
Part
4. Cleanliness & Housekeeping
23. Catherine E. Beecher, On the Care of Parlours', The Treatise on Domestic
Economy for the use of Young Ladies (New York: Harper Bros., 1846), pp.
302-306
24. Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslies Ladys House-Book: A Manual of Domestic
Economy, Containing Approved Directions for Washing, Dress-Making, Millinery,
(Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, successor to A. Hart, late Carey & Hart.
1850), pp. 336-343
25. Samuel W. Richards, The Influence of Order, Method, and Cleanliness, in
Factories and Workshops, upon the Homes of the Industrial Population of Large
Towns, Journal of the Society of Arts, 25, 1876, pp. 893-8
26. Florence Caddy, Household Organization, (London: Chapman & Hall, 1877),
pp. 155-175
27. Mrs [ Mary] Haweis, The Art of Housekeeping: A Bridal Garland, (London:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889), pp. 79-86
28. Spencer Sills, Common-Sense Homes: A Practical Book for Everybody upon
the Essential Equipment and Treatment of the Home (London: Cassell. 1912),
pp. 1-7
Part
5. Comfort
29. Max Schlesinger & O. Wenckstern, Saunterings in and about London (London:
N. Cooke, 1853), pp. 6-10
30. Henry Mayhew, Home is Home be it Never So Homely, in C. J. Shrewsbury,
Meliora: or Better Times to Come, (London: Parker and Son, 1853), pp. 258-264
31. [ Anon], Our Household Goods, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature,
Science and Art, 18, 458, (1864), pp.178-180
32. Robert Kerr, The Gentlemans House: Or, How to plan English residences,
from the parsonage to the palace; with tables of accommodation and cost, and
a series of selected plans (London: J. Murray, 1865), pp. 69- 71
33. Hippolyte Taine, Notes on England (London: Strahan & Co., 1872), pp.
181-183
34. Samuel Smiles, Thrift (London: J. Murray, 1875), pp. 359-362
Part
6. Domesticity
35. James A. Froude, The Nemesis of Fait, (London: Chapman, 1849), pp.102-4
36. Joseph Watts Lethbridge, The Home Paradise, The Englishwomans Review:
A Journal of Womans Work, no. 45, 22 May1858, pp. 629-30
37. Eliza Cook, Three Hundred Pounds a Year, The Poetical Works of Eliza
Cook (London: F. Warne, c. 1872), pp. 601-3
38. Annie. S. Swan, The Ideal Home, Courtship and Marriage: And the Gentle
art of Home-making (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1893), pp. 56-64
39. Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley, Shelter and Clothing: A Textbook of the
Household Arts (New York: Macmillan Co., c.1913), pp. 1-5
Part
7. Gender and Identity
40. [ Anon], Decorating Art as an Employment for Ladies, The Ladies
Treasury: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Literature, 1 December
1874, pp. 291+
41. Jacob von Falke, Womens Aesthetic Mission, Art in the House:
Historical, Critical, and Ęsthetical Studies on the Decoration and Furnishing
of the Dwelling (Boston: L. Prang & Co. 1879), pp. 330-6
42. Lewis F. Day, How to Decorate a Room, Magazine of Art, 1881, pp.182-6
43. Frances Power Cobbe, The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures Authorized
ed. (Boston, Mass.: G. H. Ellis. 1882), 136-148 [ Extracts]
44. [ Anon], Relations of Interior Decoration with Costume and Complexion,
The Art Amateur, 10, 1, 1883, pp. 13-16
45. [ Anon], Women and Men: Women as Household Decorators, Harpers Bazaar,
19, 27 February 1886, p.138
46. J. Moyr. Smith, Ornamental Interiors Ancient & Modern (London: Crosby
Lockwood. 1887), pp. 76-80
47, Mary Temple Bayard, How to Beautify a Home, The Canadian Magazine of
Politics, Science, Art and Literature, 111, 1894, pp. 168-172
48. Candace Wheeler, Interior Decoration as a Profession for Women, The
Decorator and Furnisher, 26, 3, 1895, pp. 87
49. Mrs O. B. Bunce, Mrs. Kate Collins the Artist-Decorator, The Decorator
and Furnisher, 30, 4, 1897, pp. 102104
50. Marquise de Fontenoy, The Beautiful Womans Home, in Eves Glossary:
[ The guide-book of a "mondaine"] (Chicago: H.S. Stone. 1897), pp. 175-183
51. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home, its Work and Influence (London:
William Heinemann, 1904), pp. 143-60
52. Averil Furniss, Dorothy Sanderson and Marion Phillips, The Views of the
Woman in the Home, The Working Womans House (London: The Swarthmore Press
Ltd. 1919), pp. 9-21
Part
8. Role of Architects, Designers and Decorators
53. [ Anon], The Architect versus the Cabinet Maker and Others, The Fine
Arts Journal, 13 February 1847, p. 228
54. Mrs Martha J. Loftie, Doing Up Ones House, Social Twitters (London:
Macmillan, 1879), pp. 33-9
55. Lewis F. Day, The Relation of the Architect to the Decorator, British
Architect, 16 March 1883, pp.125-6
56. Charles F. A. Voysey, The Aims and Conditions of the Modern Decorator,
The Journal of Decorative Art, 15, 1895, pp. 82-90
57. Crace Company, Wyman's Commercial Encyclopędia of Leading Manufacturers
of Great Britain (London: Wyman, 1888), pp. 144-46
Part
9. Role of Retailers and purchasing practices
58. M. B. H., Home Truths for Home Peace, or "Muddle" Defeated, A Practical
Inquiry into what Chiefly Mars or Makes the Comfort of Domestic Life.
Especially Addressed to Young Housewives (London: Longman, Brown, Green, &
Longmans, 1854), 6th Edition, pp. 78-85
59. John V. Hood, An Art Room, The Connoisseur, 2, 2, 1887, pp. 805
60. R. Riordan, A Visit to Bailey, Banks & Biddles Art Rooms, The
Connoisseur, 3, 2, 1888, pp. 6173
61. John H. Cardwell, Two Centuries of Soho: Its Institutions, Firms, and
Amusements (London: Truslove and Hanson, 1898), pp. 188-96
62. Lewis F. Day, Decoration by Correspondence, The Art Journal, 55,1893,
pp. 85-8
63. Jane Ellen Panton, Parlours, Suburban Residences and how to Circumvent
Them (London: Ward & Downey, 1896), pp. 128-58
64. John H. Elder-Duncan, Hints to Purchasers, The House Beautiful and
Useful: Being Practical Suggestions on Furnishing and Decoration (London:
Cassell, 1907), pp. 221-4
65. Walter S. Sparrow, Hints on House Furnishing (London: Eveleigh Nash,
1909), pp. 29-39
Part
10. Spiritual Matters
66. Jesse E. Dow, The Happy Home, The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music and
Romance, 1 March 1840, pp.184+
67. George. G. Scott, Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present &
Future (London; J. Murray, 1857), pp. 140-3
68. [ Anon], Luxury in House Decoration, Saturday Review, 7 September
(1878), pp. 307-8
69. James R. Miller, The Ethics of Home Decoration, Week-day Religion,
(Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1880). pp. 265-74
70. Laura C. Holloway, The Hearthstone, or Life at Home: A Household Manual
Containing Hints and Helps for Home Making: Home Furnishing; Decoration;
Amusements ... Together with a Complete Cookery Book (Chicago: L.P. Miller.
1887). pp. 25-35
Bibliography
Index
Clive Edwards is Professor Emeritus of Design History at Loughborough University.
More info about Taylor & Francis e-books