This Smithsonian Snapshot offers design inspiration from mid-19th century family photos, tintypes and Victorian parlor collages ... portraits and decorative images. The parlor became the center of ...

Donna Loftus explores how social change transformed the aspirations of an emerging Victorian middle class and the value ... or to ensure the success of the family business, might be essential ...

A little more than 160 years ago, a powerful analysis of the role of the middle class in economic development was unleashed on the Victorian public ... that income for a family living off the ...

No 19th Century parlor ... of dim Victorian chambers and an ability to survive nearly total neglect. It has dark green, sword-shaped leaves and is a member of the lily family.

Go back even two decades and the middle class would be defined as owning their own home, having private health insurance, enjoying a couple of family holidays ... back to Victorian times, with ...

Isabella Beeton also comments on the charitable duties of the mistress of the household, demonstrating how the middle-class Victorian woman ... actual state of each family ...