A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland

by Barbara J. Black and Barbara Black

In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London--the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? Distinctly British,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082142016X
• ISBN13: 9780821420164
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"