The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything by Ruth Goodman

The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything

Ruth Goodman

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 mor...

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