IN Victorian households, women's work was "the distaff side," a phrase evoking medieval images of bent backs, spinning wheels and flax.

He composes a tribute to the glories of returning home to the atmosphere of a Victorian household.

You'd met my father and mother, you knew I'd been raised in a very repressed, almost Victorian household.

Violet had no intention, however, of remaining a spinster in her father's dour Victorian household.

The kitchen and scullery show visitors how Victorian households looked.

The governess occupied an awkward position in the Victorian household, because she was neither quite a servant nor a member of the host family.

While in the cottages at Mentmore the interiors are no different from those of any lower middle-class Victorian small household.

In the Victorian household, the children's quarters were referred to as the 'nursery', but the name of the responsible servant had largely evolved from 'nurse' to 'nanny'.

The Museum has also since 1995 provided tours of the Walton-Young Historic House, a restored Victorian household.

Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered; muffins would be delivered door-to-door by a muffin man.