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The Daily Round, The Common Task

Jane Ridley THE VICTORIAN HOUSE by Judith Flanders HaiperCollins, £20, pp. 476, ISBN 000713887 T oday we tend to see the Victorian woman as a bird in a gilded cage, lying on a......

Where There's A Will There's A Wife

Hugh Massingberd MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE: GREAT LADIES AND GRAND HOUSES, 1670-1830 by Rosemary Baird Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 320, ISBN 0297830783 he survival of historic houses,' my......