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Victorian Life The Light of the Home : An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America 
Harvey Green, Mary E. Perry, Margaret Strong (Illustrator)Paperback 1st Ed. edition (September 1984) Random House (Paper); ISBN: 039471329X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 9.23 x 7.22 From the greatest collection of American Victoriana comes a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago. 125 black & white photos.
Victorian America : Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4) 
Thomas J. SchlerethThe Gilded Age : Essays on the Origins of Modern America Charles W. Calhoun (Editor) Paperback - 347 pages (October 1995) Scholarly Resources; ISBN: 0842025006 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.96 x 9.01 x 5.98 The Reckless Decade : America in the 1890s H. W. Brands Hardcover - 750 pages 1 Ed edition (December 1995) St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312135947 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 9.55 x 6.51 The Mauve Decade : American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century Thomas Beer Paperback - 272 pages 1 Carroll edition (November 1997) Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0786705019 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x 8.24 x 5.50 The Mauve Decade was originally published in 1926 and is written in an abstract style that may be incomprehensible to some looking for straight history. Try it at your library before you buy. I think it can be seen as an interpretive work giving counterpoint to ordinary histories, similar to the more abstract or artsy responses to modern life published today.
On Women & Friendship : A Collection of Victorian Keepsakes and Traditions Ockenga, Starr Hardcover (April 1993) Stewart Tabori & Chang; ISBN: 1556702426 A gift book celebrating the friendship between Victorian women. Their keepsake books became living histories, as they inscribed poetry and prose, added illustrations, attached locks of hair, or inserted tokens of their handwork between the pages of their friends' albums. The author is featured in Victoria magazine's May issue. Full color.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century Jane Rhodes
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