...and the Desdemona. The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through...of their homes. Nothing so much marks their manners aii tVi? concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court and camp. Wellington...

...a book, English Traits, published in 1856, he observed: "The motive and end of their [the English] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes."2 Almost a century later, Erwin Schrodinger, a German scientist living in Britain, said in a...

...significance of the home in English life in the 1850s. On the one hand, it was a source of enormous vitality. 'Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation...guard the independence and privacy of their homes.' At the same time, it promoted a certain narrow patriotism and lack of principle as its concomitants....

...independence and privacy of their homes'. 'Domesticity', Emerson writes in his inimitable, metaphorical style, 'is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high' (p. 107). Yet such branching fails to make the English visionary in the widest sense: the English,...