Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity, 1850 - 1930 by Katherine C. Grier
Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity, 1850 - 1930

Katherine C. Grier

Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity, 1850 - 1930

Katherine C. Grier

267 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
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In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an att...

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