Living with Lodgers
Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:7th Jan '25
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For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many domestic dwelling lodgings in England at this time, providing an extraordinary, intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants therein.
'This work successfully documents lodging arrangements in domestic dwellings, from circumstances that initiated lodgings to the social and economic circumstances that ended the lodging arrangements. By drawing on census reports as well as court records and coroners' inquests, Holmes (Notre Dame London, UK) challenges the myths that have developed around both the lodgers and the householders who rented out the rooms. In doing so, the book sheds light on the household dynamics of Victorian working-class homes. In particular, the work reveals many of the financial circumstances that destabilized working-class families and provides a more complicated understanding of working-class homes as offered by those who observed these households, as well as by those individuals who lodged and those who took in lodgers.'
- R. J. Bates, Berea College, CHOICE Recommended.
ISBN: 9781526170286
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 13mm
Weight: 366g
184 pages