Goodman was very careful not to impose her own biases on the reader. I appreciated one of her side comments about the place of women in Victorian England, though and how mainstream "experts" viewed women. "My own historical laundry experiences have led me to see the powered washing machine as one of the great bulwarks of women’s liberation, an invention that can sit alongside contraception and the vote in the direct impact it has had on changing women’s lives."

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A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City Woodward, Llewellyn (1962). The Age of Reform, 1815–1870 (2nded.). Oxford University Press. pp.28, 78–90, 446, 456, 464–465. I will warn readers that this book is dense with historical details, and it took me a while to get through it. I learned a lot and thought it was interesting, but it was a slow read.

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