Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction
The deathbed apart, there are few scenes more profoundly disturbing in nineteenth-century fiction than the household clearance, or the process of 'selling up': the identification of domestic material goods for sale at auction, either in situ, or elsewhere. Of course, we shouldn't be s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2008-04-01
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Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/472 |