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"An intimate and absorbing account of the inner lives and thoughts of a middle-class Victorian family, as told through the diaries of Marion Sambourne. Marion Sambourne was born in 1851 and died a few days before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. She married the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne and was absorbed into an artistic circle which included Tenniel, du Maurier, Watts, Crane, Grossmith, Rider Hoggard, Bret Harte and Gilbert. She kept her diary for thirty-tree years, and it records not only what she did, but the minutiae of daily life in a Victorian household: where she shopped, what the family ate, who came to call. She also made notes on dinner parties, wrote instructions for the servants and made inventories of household items......."
The words above are from the back cover of Shirley Nicholson´s A Victorian Household, the book I am reading right now as a kind of preparation for my upcoming travel to London and Great Britain.
It was December 2013. I was in London for the weekend, and met my dear friend and blog reader Fran at V&A for a few Sunday hours. We had lunch at the Pre-Raphaelite Café, and Fran introduced to me a series of British litterature "outside the lines" (which means books and authors I had never heard of before) A Victorian Household was among them.
Fran also told me that it is possible to visit the Linley Sambourne House, but as I now visit their homepage it looks like it is only open for groups :-( Well, I will send them an email asking for a permission anyway, and if not, I can always take a look at the house from the street.
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The photos were taken in Hyde Park December 2013.