Rachel’s Reviews > Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England > Status Update

"The Victorian house became defined as a refuge, a place apart from the sordid aspects of commercial life, with different morals, different rules, different guidelines to protect the soul from being consumed by commerce. Or so it seemed."

So we've been trying to protect our souls from being consumed by commerce for over 100 years now, huh? 😅