# Culture and Comfort

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- Book: [Culture and Comfort](https://www.bookquiver.com/katherine-grier/culture-and-comfort) ([Culture and Comfort.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/katherine-grier/culture-and-comfort.md))
- Authors: [Katherine Grier](https://www.bookquiver.com/katherine-grier)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-6098-716-1
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2010-06-22
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades...