What were the homes of rich families like in the 1800s?
Well, it depends on what nation you are inquiring about, and what your definition of “rich” is. Let’s just go with the typical definition. In England, you would find aristocrats with Victorian era clothing (similar to today’s lolita style). Books were certainly an upper-class item in the 1800s in England, because unlike today, education was no government-sponsored. So you would find books ranging from the “Canterbury Tales” to “Frankenstein” to “Pride and Prejudice” (just an estimation, of course). Art was an incredibly popular luxury back then, with famous paintings like The Progress of Love by Jean Fragonard, that generally appealed to the aristocratic. Their speech would also be different from that of the lower-classes; more elegant, more grammatically correct, more sophisticated diction. Their houses would be enormous and beautifully decorated; wide and with several tiers, and a hint of Georgian/Victorian era embellishment. In the U.S, rich families’ characteristics had a few diffe
