London clubland : a cultural history of gender and class in late Victorian Britain
Amy Milne-Smith (Author)
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature the Late Victorian landscape in London, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world. The wealthy men of the British upper classes have often been segregated to the realm of biography or family history, lumped in with their middle-class rivals, or dismissed as irrelevant in the larger story of Victorian Britain. This book places the English gentleman at center stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped nineteenth and early twentieth-century ideas about gender, domesticity, power, class, and the city
History
1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) : illustrations
9781137002082, 1137002085
767824052
Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs of London
The Blackball: Looking for the 'Right Sort' of Member
Gentlemen Behaving Badly
Club Talk, Men's Gossip, and the Creation of a Community
The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity
Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed-Sex Destiny
The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital