Amanda Vickery

'Behind Closed Doors'

Bog | Engelsk

In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer i

'The Gentleman's Daughter'

Bog | Engelsk

What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes womens own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie