2009, Yale University Press,                                                                                                   382 pages

We see the Georgians at home as we have never seen them before in this groundbreaking book...both scholarly and terrific good fun, Frances Wilson, Sunday Times The Georgian house is a byword for proportion and elegance, but what did it mean to its inhabitants? In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of English men and women, from the Oxfordshire mansion of the unhappy gentlewoman Anne Dormer in the 1680s to the dreary London lodgings of the bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in the 1830s. With her customary wit and verve, she evokes the interiors of a wide range of homes, introducing us to the genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, professional couples setting up home in rented houses, widowers frantic to keep their households afloat without a mistress, and servants with only a locking box to call their own.