Participant Info
- First Name
- Vicky
- Last Name
- Holmes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- holmes.v.j@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Queen Mary University of London
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Victorian, working class, domestic life, accidents, marriage, motherhood, coroners, death, old age, childbirth, landladies and lodgers, nocturnal life
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
- Recent Publications
Vicky Holmes, In Bed with the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage (Palgrave Pivot, 2017).
This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a spouse.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/Vicky_Holmes
- Country Focus
- UK
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Sexual Violence, Urban History, Women
