From Kitchen to Garret
Hints for Young Householders

Published in 1893, this revised guide by a nineteenth-century domestic expert shows couples how to set up their first home.

Jane Ellen Panton (Author)

9781108053105, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 August 2012

340 pages, 32 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg

Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923) was the second daughter of the artist William Powell Frith, and a journalist and author on domestic issues. First published in 1887, this is the revised 1893 edition of her guide for young married couples on how to set up their first home. In it she draws on twenty-three years' experience of living in London to advise on everything from choosing a house and internal decoration to budgeting effectively and entertaining friends. Updated extensively, the book contains a thorough index, a selection of illustrations, and new information on many of the topics discussed. The author devotes each chapter to a different part of the house, and concludes by advising her readers to let 'love, beauty, carefulness and economy' rule their lives. Providing revealing insight into domestic middle-class life in late nineteenth-century England, this book remains of interest to historians and sociologists.

Preface
1. Choosing a house
2. The kitchen arrangements
3. Meals and money
4. The housemaid's closet, and glass and china
5. First shopping
6. The hall
7. The dining-room
8. The morning-room
9. The drawing-room
10. Curtains, carpets, and lighting
11. Bedrooms
12. Dressing-rooms
13. Spare rooms
14. The servants' rooms
15. The nurseries
16. In retirement
17. The schoolroom
18. Boys and girls
19. Entertaining one's friends
20. The summing-up
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]