Letting out a giant burp after a meal in China and Taiwan would be seen as the highest form of compliment, but not so if you were dining ... Victorian Era and led to a burgeoning middle class ...

The dining room, with the dining table at its center, began to be incorporated into wealthy homes across the country, eventually trickling down to the middle class. From the mid-19th century ...

The story of that dining room—called the Peacock ... surrounding its creation and denouement. The room was the subject of much gossip among Victorian society at the time, and its story has ...

Today, visitors experience Gaskell’s home and its re-established Victorian ... class and other social issues, did not have a room of her own. The author sat at a round table in the dining ...