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

• Main Author: Wagner, Tamara Silvia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature; Mrs Henry Wood; Mrs Halliburton’s Troubles
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160497
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...