![]() The notetaking and research inspired by Dickens and Trollope’s mentions of everyday life must have added another year to her endeavors. Merely reading the complete oeuvre of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope must have taken months. Flanders is prolific, remarkably so considering the immense amount of research she has to wade through in order to write her own books. Several books later, she got around to writing The Making of Home. Flanders discovered she wanted to know everything about how the McDonald sisters lived in their daily life and so, as she learned more and more and more, she wrote about what she’d learned. ![]() They married ‘up’ and ended up being related to or knowing all kinds of people whose names you’ve heard of such as Rudyard Kipling and Edward Burne-Jones.īut while researching the background of A Circle of Sisters, Ms. Judith Flanders backed into writing nonfiction histories of how normal people lived because she started out by writing a biography of four Victorian sisters (the McDonalds as told in A Circle of Sisters) who married extremely well. The Making of Home: The 500 Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes by Judith Flanders ![]()
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