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The Spectacle of Intimacy LITERATURE IN HISTORY SERIESEDITORS DavidBromwich,JamesChandler,andLionelGossman Thebooksinthisseriesstudyliteraryworksinthecontextofthe intellectualconditions,socialmovements,andpatterns ofactioninwhichtheytookshape. Otherbooksintheseries: LawrenceRothfield,VitalSigns:MedicalRealism inNineteenth-CenturyFiction DavidQuint,EpicandEmpire:PoliticsandGeneric FormfromVirgiltoMilton AlexanderWelsh,TheHerooftheWaverlyNovels SusanDunn,TheDeathsofLouisXVI:Regicideand theFrenchPoliticalImagination SharonAchinstein,MiltonandtheRevolutionaryReader EstherSchor,BearingtheDead:TheBritishCultureofMourning fromtheEnlightenmenttoVictoria ElizabethK.Helsinger,RuralScenesandNationalRepresentation: Britain,1815–1850 KatieTrumpener,BardicNationalism:TheRomanticNovel andtheBritishEmpire The Spectacle of Intimacy A PUBLIC LIFE FOR THE VICTORIAN FAMILY Karen Chase and Michael Levenson PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyrightª 2000byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress, 3MarketPlace,Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Chase,Karen,1952- Thespectacleofintimacy:apubliclifefortheVictorianfamily/ KarenChaseandMichaelLevenson. p. cm. (Literatureinhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-691-00668-7(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Englishliterature—19thcentury—Historyandcriticism.2.Homeinliterature. 3.Literatureandhistory—GreatBritain—History—19thcentury.4.Publicopinion— GreatBritain—History—19thcentury.5.Privacy—GreatBritain—History—19thcentury. 6.Family—GreatBritain—History—19thcentury.7.GreatBritain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901.8.Familyinliterature.I.Levenson,MichaelH.(MichaelHarry),1951-II. Title.III.Literatureinhistory(Princeton,N.J.) PR468.H63C482000 823¢.809355—dc21 99-058479 ThisbookhasbeencomposedinTimesRoman Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements ofANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992(R1997)(PermanenceofPaper) www.pup.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Alex and Sarah Two More Chase-Levensons This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION TheTroublewithFamilies 3 PART ONE: The Political Theater of Domesticity CHAPTERONE TheTrialsofCarolineNorton:Poetry,Publicity,andthe PrimeMinister 21 CHAPTERTWO TheYoungQueenandtheParliamentaryBedchamber: ‘‘Ineversawamansofrightened” 46 PART TWO: Beneath the Banner of Home CHAPTERTHREE SarahStickneyEllis:TheArdentWomanandtheAbjectWife 65 CHAPTERFOUR Tom’sPinch:TheSexualSerpentbesidetheDickensianFireside 86 PART THREE: Was That an Angel in the House? CHAPTERFIVE LoveafterDeath:TheDeceasedWife’sSisterBill 105 CHAPTERSIX TheTransvestite,theBloomer,andtheNightingale 121 PART FOUR: The Architecture of Comfort and Ruin CHAPTERSEVEN OntheParapetsofPrivacy:WallsofWealthandDispossession 143 CHAPTEREIGHT RobertKerr:TheGentleman’sHouseandtheOne-RoomSolution 156 viii CONTENTS PART FIVE: The Sensations of Respectability CHAPTERNINE TheEmpireofDivorce:SingleWomen,theBillof1857, andRevoltinIndia 181 CHAPTERTEN BigamyandModernity:TheCaseofMaryElizabethBraddon 201 EPILOGUE:BetweenManualandSpectacle 215 Notes 221 Index 247 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. ‘‘TheFavouriteFlower” 24 2. ‘‘TheBrightonBeauty” 29 3. ‘‘TheLadiesWillPoptheQuestion” 128 4. ‘‘Bloomeriana.ADream” 129 5. DetailfromtheplanforthecuttingofNewOxfordStreet 150 6. ‘‘OverLondon—ByRail” 154 7. TheGothicsolution 164 8. Theone-roomsolution 173 9. ‘‘MissWheelerDefendingHerselfagainsttheSepoysatCawnpore” 198
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