Abstract
In the 15 years following Mrs E. M. King’s proposal for a cooperative home in 1874, much was written about housekeeping methods but few practical improvements were introduced. Middle-class wives were still dealing with the problems of coal ranges, gas lighting and difficult or unobtainable servants well into the 1890s. Although some parts of Kensington were supplied with electricity for lighting in 1887, it was after 1900 before this became the norm, with the consequent reduction in dirt and cleaning.1 Suburban living had become more widely available from 1880 onwards,2 and wives with new houses and housekeeping problems provided a growing market for the plethora of women’s magazines concerned with upkeep of the home. The Housewife began publishing in 1886, The Mother’s Companion in 1887 and The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1890, and these were followed by many more,3 with articles frequently concerned with home management and the servant problem. The teaching of domestic subjects was becoming more common, their importance in the school curriculum increasing in the 1880s and 1890s,4 while the theory and practice of domestic economy was taught widely in evening classes by the late 1890s.5
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Pearson, L.F. (1988). Socialised Domestic Work and the Garden City. In: The Architectural and Social History of Cooperative Living. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19122-2_5
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