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 29m
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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 29 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Howards End
26CHAPTER VI
2CHAPTER I
27CHAPTER VII
3CHAPTER IV
28CHAPTER II
4CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER III
5CHAPTER IX
30CHAPTER IV
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6CHAPTER XII
31CHAPTER V
7CHAPTER XV
32CHAPTER VI
8CHAPTER XVII
33CHAPTER II
9CHAPTER XX
34CHAPTER III
10CHAPTER XXIV
35CHAPTER IV
11CHAPTER XXVII
36CHAPTER V
12CHAPTER XXXI
37CHAPTER VI
13CHAPTER XXXV
38CHAPTER II
14CHAPTER XXXIX
39CHAPTER III
15CHAPTER XLIV
40CHAPTER II
16A Family of Noblemen
41CHAPTER III
17TRANSLATED BY A. YARMOLINSKY
42CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER II
43CHAPTER II
19CHAPTER III
44CHAPTER III
20CHAPTER IV
45CHAPTER IV
21CHAPTER V
46CHAPTER V
22CHAPTER II
47Sisters Three
23CHAPTER III
48Chapter Two
24CHAPTER IV
49Chapter Three
25CHAPTER V
50Chapter Four
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