There is a great deal of literature on this relating to the rise of
gentility, the cult of domesticity and the doctrine of separate spheres.
When I was writing on this for my thesis the principal researcher was Lenore
Davidoff whose work is easily tracked down in Google scholar.
Davidoff, L. 1979. The Separation of Home and Work? Landladies and Lodgers
in Nineteenth and twentieth-century England. In Fit work for women, edited
by S. Burman. London: Croom Helm Ltd.
———. 1990. The family in Britain. 71-129.
Davidoff, L., and C. Hall. 1983. The Architecture of Public and Private
Life: English Middle-class Society in a Provincial Town, 1780 to 1850.
327-345.
———. 1987. Family Fortunes, Men and women of the English middle class,
1780-1850. London: Hutchinson & Co.
Davidoff, L., J. L'Esperance, and H. Newby. 1976. Landscape with figures:
Home and Community in English society. In The Rights and Wrongs of Women,
edited by A. Oakley and J. Mitchell. Hamnodsworth: Penguin Books.
See also
Clark, C. E. 1976. Domestic Architecture as an index to Social History: The
romantic Revival and the Cult of Domesticity in America, 1840-1870. Journal
of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1):33-56.
Marsh, M. 1989. From Separation to togetherness: The Social construction of
Domestic Space in American Suburbs, 1840-1915. The Journal of American
History 76 (2):506-527.
Mathews, G. 1989. "Just a Housewife”: the Rise and Fall of Domesticity in
America. Oxford: Oxford University Press Paperbacks.
Wright, G. 1980. Moralism and the Model Home. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press.
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