Amanda Vickery
Auteur van The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
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Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of the Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 1998; Winner of the Whitfield prize, the Wolfson prize and the Longman-History Today prize) and the editor of toon meer Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2001). toon minder
Werken van Amanda Vickery
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (Studies in British Art) (2007) — Redacteur — 19 exemplaren
Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (The Making of Modern Freedom) (2001) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
Women and the world of goods 1 exemplaar
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In Pursuit of Pleasure [2001 film] — Verteller — 2 exemplaren
The Story of Women and Art [2014 film] — Verteller — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1962
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
- Beroepen
- historian
Professor of Early Modern History - Relaties
- Styles, John (husband)
- Organisaties
- University of London, Queen Mary College
- Korte biografie
- Amanda Vickery is the prize-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter (Yale University Press, 1998) and Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 2009), now a 3 part TV series for BBC2 called 'At Home with the Georgians'.
She is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Amanda reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, The Guardian and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row and Woman's Hour. Her thirty part History of Private Life for BBC Radio 4 is now available on CD. [from Amazon.com, 6/5/2013]
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In studying Georgian homes, Vickery uses a number of different perspectives. Among her goals is the reintroduction of men into the picture, which she does most notably in her chapter on the homes of bachelors. Yet as she demonstrates, the furnishing and decoration of homes was predominantly a female concern, albeit one often handled in consultation with the men of the household. Such decisions were often mundane, and focused more on simple maintenance rather than grand refurbishment, but all of them reflected the interests of the participants and were shaped by the concept of "taste" that emerged during this period, which charted a path that increasing numbers were compelled to take.
Detailed, insightful, and well-written, Vickery's book offers a fascinating examination of life in Georgian England. Because of the limitations of her sources, it is by necessity an examination focused primarily on the upper classes, yet she succeeds in taking account books, ledgers, and other mundane sources to reconstruct their lives, showing the growing importance of home life and the weight contemporaries placed on defining their domestic environment. Her success in unearthing these details and bringing the Georgian world back to life makes this book a necessary read for anyone interested in 18th century England, one that will likely serve as an indispensable study of the subject for decades to come.… (meer)