{"product_id":"etiquette-and-elbowgrease-housekeeping-in-victorian-new-zealand-by-miriam-macgregor","title":"Etiquette \u0026 Elbowgrease: Housekeeping in Victorian New Zealand by Miriam Macgregor (1976)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStep inside a Victorian New Zealand household\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGood Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e – Vintage book with noticeable cover and edge wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiriam Macgregor recreates the routines, rules and resourcefulness of domestic life in Victorian New Zealand. Drawing on period manuals, advertisements, diaries and illustrations, she explores the demanding work behind cooking, cleaning, laundry, entertaining, childcare and household management. The book also reveals how expectations of manners, class and respectability shaped behaviour both inside and outside the home. Practical advice from the era sits beside revealing social history, creating an entertaining and informative portrait of settlers adapting British customs to colonial conditions with plenty of etiquette, ingenuity and elbow grease.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Value Junction ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48667917091028,"sku":"TVJ-031591","price":19.55,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/3059\/2980\/files\/TVJ-031591-1.jpeg?v=1789447927","url":"https:\/\/thevaluejunction.co.nz\/products\/etiquette-and-elbowgrease-housekeeping-in-victorian-new-zealand-by-miriam-macgregor","provider":"The Value Junction ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}