Risk-management at home: domestic accidents and Mrs. Henry Wood’s household advice

This paper investigates the representation of domestic accidents in popular Victorian fiction. Taking Mrs Henry Wood’s Mrs Halliburton’s Troubles (1862) as a case study, I discuss how accidents at home signpost changing reactions to risk and risk-management as much as to the work of managing a house...

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Main Author: Wagner, Tamara Silvia
Other Authors: School of Humanities
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160497
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English