The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to DeathbedThe bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th century men and women. Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in