Title The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything / Ruth Goodman.

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New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	640 GOO	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	941.081 GOODMAN	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	640 GOODMAN	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	303.483 GOO	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	303.483 GOODMAN	Check Shelf
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Edition	First American edition.
Description	xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-321) and index.
Note	"Originally published in Great Britain under the title The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into our homes changed everything"--Title page verso.
Summary	""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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Home economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Stoves, Coal -- History -- 19th century.
	Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
	Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Cooking, British -- History -- 19th century.
	Cooking, British. (OCoLC)fst01753263
	Home economics. (OCoLC)fst00959173
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Stoves, Coal. (OCoLC)fst01134220
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Anecdotes.
ISBN	9781631497636 (hardcover)
	1631497634 (hardcover)
	9781631497643 (epub)

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