A Tapestry of Home Life: 27 Domestic Fiction Books
Classic Tales of Marriage, Class, Childhood, and the Hidden Dramas of HomeBy Mrs. Molesworth, Emile Zola, E. M. Forster, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, Maria Edgeworth, George de Horne Mrs. Vaizey, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Jean Bingham Wilson, Marian Hurd McNeely, Caroline Austin, Sarah E. Farro, Rebecca West, W. Somerset Maugham, Edith Wharton, Corra Harris, Margaret M. Robertson, Eleanora H. Stooke, Martha Finley, Ethel Turner, Theodore P. Wilson
Length219h 23m
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A Tapestry of Home Life gathers twenty-seven works of domestic fiction into a capacious study of the household as sanctuary, schoolroom, battleground, and miniature social order. Its range extends from children's and family narratives to satire, realist social observation, psychological fiction, and narratives of marriage, inheritance, class, and female self-fashioning. The collection's most compelling contrasts arise where apparently intimate plots open onto larger questions of authority, poverty, respectability, imperial culture, and generational change. The contributors represent a notably broad international and transatlantic field, bringing together Victorian and Edwardian popular writers, major European realists, modernist experimenters, and influential women novelists. Their varied careers situate domestic life within intersecting traditions: moral and juvenile literature, nineteenth-century realism and naturalism, social satire, the novel of manners, and early twentieth-century psychological fiction. Across these distinct modes, home becomes neither a merely private refuge nor a fixed ideal, but a cultural institution shaped by gendered labor, economic circumstance, and social expectation. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a comparative view of domestic fiction's breadth and historical importance. It offers an educational encounter with multiple styles, national contexts, and assumptions about family life, while inviting close attention to the productive dialogue between comforting convention and incisive critique. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find in it a rich archive of changing ideas of home.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length219 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1Howards End
26Chapter Two. (pt. 2)
2CHAPTER I
27Chapter Two. (pt. 3)
3CHAPTER IV
28The Confounding of Camelia
4CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER IX
30CHAPTER V
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6CHAPTER XII
31CHAPTER IX
7CHAPTER XV
32CHAPTER XIII
8CHAPTER XVII
33CHAPTER XVIII
9CHAPTER XX
34CHAPTER XXII
10CHAPTER XXIV
35CHAPTER XXVI
11CHAPTER XXVII
36A Circuit Rider's Wife
12CHAPTER XXXI
37ILLUSTRATIONS (pt. 1)
13CHAPTER XXXV
38ILLUSTRATIONS (pt. 2)
14CHAPTER XXXIX
39ILLUSTRATIONS (pt. 3)
15CHAPTER XLIV
40Grandmother Elsie
16A Family of Noblemen
41CHAPTER I.
17A Family of Noblemen
42CHAPTER V.
18TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY (pt. 1)
43CHAPTER IX.
19TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY (pt. 2)
44CHAPTER XIV.
20TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY (pt. 3)
45CHAPTER XVIII.
21TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY (pt. 4)
46CHAPTER XXII.
22TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY (pt. 5)
47Elsie's children
23Sisters Three
48Elsie's children
24Sisters Three
49Preface.
25Chapter Two. (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER SIXTH.
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