The Saunterer bets few think about this in the way Isabella Beeton put it:
OF THE MANNER OF PASSING EVENINGS AT HOME . . . Where there are young people forming a part of the evening circle, interesting and agreeable pastime should especially be promoted. It is of incalculable benefit to them that their homes should possess all the attractions of healthful amusement, comfort, and happiness; for if they do not find pleasure there, they will seek it elsewhere. It ought, therefore, to enter into the domestic policy of every parent, to make her children feel that home is the happiest place in the world; that to imbue them with this delicious home-feeling is one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
(Quoted from Chapter 5 of “Gone to the Shops” -- Shopping in Victorian England, by Kelley Graham. Praeger, 2008.)
For a brief biography of Isabella Beeton, click here. For images of or relating to Isabella Beeton, click here.
Kelley Graham teaches history at the Friends' Central School, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
OF THE MANNER OF PASSING EVENINGS AT HOME . . . Where there are young people forming a part of the evening circle, interesting and agreeable pastime should especially be promoted. It is of incalculable benefit to them that their homes should possess all the attractions of healthful amusement, comfort, and happiness; for if they do not find pleasure there, they will seek it elsewhere. It ought, therefore, to enter into the domestic policy of every parent, to make her children feel that home is the happiest place in the world; that to imbue them with this delicious home-feeling is one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
(Quoted from Chapter 5 of “Gone to the Shops” -- Shopping in Victorian England, by Kelley Graham. Praeger, 2008.)
For a brief biography of Isabella Beeton, click here. For images of or relating to Isabella Beeton, click here.
Kelley Graham teaches history at the Friends' Central School, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
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