Life in Victorian English Country Houses

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Are you still suffering withdrawal symptoms from the end of Downton Abbey or more recently Sandton? Has the pleasure of those series been rekindled by Victoria? 

Downton Abbey was set in the Edwardian Age as the power of England’s landed aristocracy declined. Life in Victorian English Country Houses explores country house life at its height in the Victorian Age. Topics include: the economic basis, the houses themselves, hierarchy upstairs and down, annual calendar and daily schedule, eating, dressing, playing, and decline.      

 Course Outline

February 8: Introduction to this series of courses and this course in particular

February 15: Country Houses: What Are They?

February 22:Victorian Aristocratic Class Hierarchy (”The Family”) 

February 29: Annual Social Calendar

March 7: Country House Visit

March 14: Country House Activities

March 21: Country House Leisure 

March 28: Decline of the Aristocracy—and of the Country House