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  Index

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  Aberystwyth, Wales

  Adam, John and Robert

  Adorno, Theodor

  Aestheticism

  air quality and pollution

  Alberti, Leon Battista

  Alden, John

  Altdeutsch (architectural style)

  America, Colonial: housing; families in; chairs in; household possessions; table manners; windows and glazing; use of candles; see also United States of America

  American Revolution (1776); and revolt against imports

  American Standard company

  American Women’s Educational Association

  Amerika zu Haus (exhibition, Berlin)

  Amish people

  Amsterdam: and change; as trade centre; and luxury goods; street lighting; abandoned babies

  Anne, Queen of Great Britain

  apartments: design; British distaste for; blocks

  arc lighting

  architecture: styles; and restoration and reconstruction; modernism; and ‘form follows function’

  Argand lamp

  aristocracy: in Britain

  Art Deco

  Arts and Crafts movement (Britain)

  Asia: trade with Europe

  astriers (tenants)

  ‘at home’; journalism

  Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility

  Austria: illegitimacy rates; apartment design; see also Vienna

  babies: abandoned; furniture for

  Baburen, Dirck van: The Procuress (painting)

  bakehouses

  Baltimore, Maryland: gas lighting

  Bath, Somerset: buildings and contents

  bathrooms

  Batten, Sir William and Lady

  Baudelaire, Charles: ‘The Painter of Modern Life’

  Bauhaus

  Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard of Oz

  Bavarian style (architectural)

  Bayberry: as fuel

  bedding; see also furniture

  Bedford Park, west London

  beds and bedrooms

  Beecher, Catharine

  beeswax see candles

  Beeton, Isabella Mary: Book of Household Management

  Behne, Adolf

  Belloc, Hilaire

  Bendz, Wilhelm: A Smoking Party (painting)

  Benjamin, Walter

  Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne

  Berlin: Museum für deutsche Volkstrachten und Erzegnisse des Hausgewerbes; gas lighting

  Biedermeier (style)

  Black Death

  boarding schools

  Book of Common Prayer: on marriage

  books: children’s

  Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron

  bottle-jack

  Boulton, Matthew: Soho Manufactory

  Bournville, Birmingham

  Boy Scouts

  bread and baking

  Britain: marriage laws; illegitimate births; land enclosure; aristocracy; Great Rebuilding; antipathy to apartment blocks; architectural styles; population mobility; church-going; domestic heating; gas mains; servants; water supply; genre-painting; life expectancy; countryside and open spaces; government-housing programme; suburban house style; see also England; Scotland

  British Medical Association

  brooms

  Buckingham, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of

  buffet see dressers

  Burr, Esther

  but and ben (Scotland)

  Cabell, Joseph

  Cadbury’s (company)

  Calvin, John

  Calvinism

  candle-making

  candles; snuffers; taxed

  Cape Cod, Mass.

  capitalism: rise of

  Carlyle, Thomas

  carpets

  Carter, Landon

  Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France

  Catholicism see Roman Catholic church

  Celebration, Florida

  central heating

  chafing dishes

  chairs

  chamber-pots

  Chambord, Château de

  Charles II, King of Great Britain

  Charles, Prince of Wales

  Chesapeake, the, Virginia

  chest-of-drawers (commode)

  chests (trunks)

  children: unmarried; factory work; work in home; celebrated in family; mortality rates; manners and behaviour; education and upbringing; historical view of; play and toys; books; dress; household items for; and loss of parent

  chimneys

  China: lacks consumer revolution

  china; teaware

  cholera

  Christmas

  Church, Frederick

  churchgoing: in Britain

  Civil War, American (1861–5): deaths from disease; and new building

  class (social): differences; possessions

  cleanliness: increase in

  Cleanliness Journal

  clocks: pendulum

  coal: taxed in Britain; as domestic fuel

  Cobbett, William

  coffee

  coinage: as currency

  Coke, Sir Edward

  Coleshill House, Berkshire

  Collins, Wilkie

  comfort

  commode, and see chest-of-drawers

  Commons Preservation Society (Britain)

  consumerism; spread; debate over

  cooking

  cooking ranges

  Cooper, James Fenimore; The Pioneers; Leatherstocking Tales (series)

  Cooper, Mary

  Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret); Towards a New Architecture

  Cornwallis, Thomas

  corridors

  cosiness: as concept

  Cottage style (architecture)

  courtesy books

  Cowper, William

  Croatia

  cupboards; built-in

  curtains

  cutlery

  Davidis, Henriette

  Davy, Sir Humphry

  Defoe, Daniel: on trade; on Queen Mary; on luxuries; Robinson Crusoe

  Delft, Netherlands

  Devis, Arthur

  Diderot, Denis: ‘Regrets for My Old Dressing Gown’

  dirt and waste

  disease: and germ theory; miasma theory

  Disney Corporation

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Dissolution of the Monasteries (England)

  divorce

  dolls

  drawers see chest-of-draw
ers

  dress: children’s; and personal hygiene

  dressers

  Dublin Castle: curtains

  dugouts

  Duran glass

  Dürer, Albrecht

  Dutch, the see Netherlands

  Dutch East India Company (VOC)

  Dutch West India Company

  earthenware

  East India Company (English)

  East India Company (Dutch) see Dutch East India Company

  Eaton, Theophilus

  Edgeworth, Maria

  Edison, Thomas

  education: and original sin

  Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648)

  electricity: for lighting; and household appliances; for cooking; increasing use

  enfilade design

  England: as instigator of change; consumer revolution in; early trade; domestic privacy; social reserve; wars with Dutch; myth of family golden age; hearth tax (1662); brick chimneys; see also Britain

  Enlightenment: and education

  epidemics

  Erasmus, Desiderius; On Civility in Children

  Europe: risings and rebellions (17th century)

  Eyck, Jan van: Arnolfini Wedding (painting)

  Fabre d’Eglantine, Philippe François Nazaire

  factories: and efficiency management

  Falke, Jakob von: Die Kunst im Hause (Art in the House)

  family: meanings; nuclear; in Netherlands; as ‘little commonwealth’; royal; size; in colonial New England; myth of golden age

  feudalism: decline

  fire: for heat and light

  firelight

  fireplace; hoods; see also hearth

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby

  flâneurs

  floors: cleaning

  Florence, Italy: abandoned babies

  Flowerdew Hundred (Virginia plantation)

  food: canning; and nutritional balance; preserving; processed

  footwarmers

  Ford, Henry

  forks

  France: family; marriage in; on English sociability; prohibitions on Protestants; chimneys; see also Paris

  Frankfurt kitchen

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Franklin fireplace

  Frederick, Christine: The New Housekeeping Efficiency: Studies in Home Management

  French Revolution (1789); women and

  Friesland: housing

  furniture: in Dutch interiors; ‘invisible’; and architectural plan; mobility; utilitarian; padded and upholstered; arrangement; light; and social class; display; and fashion; appearance