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13 R. Dutton, <strong>The</strong> Victorian Home: Some Aspects of Nineteenth-century Taste and Manners<br />
(London, 1954), p. 84.<br />
14 See Juliet Kinchin, ‘<strong>Interior</strong>s: Nineteenth-century Essays on the “Masculine” and the<br />
“Feminine” Room’, in <strong>The</strong> Gendered Object, ed. P. Kirkham (Manchester, 1996), p. 20.<br />
Kinchin has written that ‘a level of civilising “refinement” was expressed in the proliferation<br />
and complexity of objects’.<br />
15 T. Logan, <strong>The</strong> Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (Cambridge, 2001), p. 97.<br />
16 Kinchin, ‘<strong>Interior</strong>s’, p. 13.<br />
17 Saisselin, Bricobracomania: <strong>The</strong> Bourgeois and the Bibelot, p. 30.<br />
18 Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr, <strong>The</strong> Decoration of Houses (London, 1897).<br />
19 Edith Wharton, <strong>The</strong> House of Mirth (Basingstoke and Oxford, 2000), pp. 38–9.<br />
20 H. Maguire, ‘<strong>The</strong> Victorian <strong>The</strong>atre as a Home from Home’, in Journal of Design History,<br />
xiii (Oxford, 2 November 2000), p. 107.<br />
21 Ibid.<br />
22 M. Guyatt, ‘A Semblance of Home: Mental Asylum <strong>Interior</strong>s, 1880–1914’ in <strong>Interior</strong> Design<br />
and Identity, ed. S. McKellar and Penny Sparke (Manchester, 2004), pp. 48–71.<br />
23 In her book Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End (Princeton,<br />
nj, 2000) Erika Diane Rappaport notes the advent of ‘a new notion of bourgeois femininity,<br />
public space and conceptions of modernity’ and the emergence of a number of women’s<br />
clubs – Berner’s Club, the Woman’s University Club, formed in 1891; the Writers’ Club,<br />
established in 1878; the Somerville; the Pioneer Club; the Empress Club and the Lyceum<br />
Club, opened in 1904, among many others.<br />
24 Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure, p. 254<br />
25 Elsie de Wolfe, ‘<strong>The</strong> Story of the Colony Club’, in <strong>The</strong> Delineator (November 1911), p. 370.<br />
26 See www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40571 (accessed 8 February 2008).<br />
27 With his wife Marie-Louise, César Ritz was known for creating striking neo-rococo interiors.<br />
See Elaine Denby, Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion (London, 1998).<br />
28 Denby, Grand Hotels, p. 8.<br />
29 Many of the women attached to the English Arts and Crafts movement, among them Janie<br />
Morris, Kate Faulkner, Phoebe Traquair and Edith Dawson, helped to encourage women’s<br />
domestic production, see I. Anscombe, A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the<br />
Present Day (London, 1984).<br />
30 K. Halttunen, ‘From Parlor to Living Room: Domestic Space, <strong>Interior</strong> Decoration, and<br />
the Culture of Personality’, in Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display in America,<br />
1880–1920, ed. S. J. Bronner (Wintherthur, de, 1989), p. 164.<br />
31 See Halttunen, ‘From Parlor to Living Room’, 1989, p. 8, and B. Gordon, ‘Woman’s Domestic<br />
Body: <strong>The</strong> Conceptual Conflation of Women and <strong>Interior</strong>s in the Industrial Age’, in<br />
Wintherthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, xxxi/4 (Winter, 1996), p. 283.<br />
Gordon wrote: ‘In a world of urban strangers, appearance became ever-more important as<br />
the outward sign of such achievement. This in itself was not new; wealthy individuals since<br />
the Renaissance had been very concerned with the impression created by what they<br />
wore. However, this preoccupation was now extended to whole new categories of people,<br />
comprising the majority of the population. Individuals on nearly every step of the social<br />
ladder had to be vigilantly concerned with and conscious of their presentation of self.<br />
Dress – the decoration of the body – and interior furnishings – the decoration of the home<br />
– together formed what in more contemporary terms has been called the front that projected<br />
the desired image to the world at large.’<br />
32 Halttunen, ‘From Parlor to Living Room’, p. 158. 215