domesticity

The upper- and middle-class homes of Victorian London were organized around comfort and an ethic of respectable domesticity that took its tone from the royal family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The dream even hinted at a life beyond domesticity — perhaps even freedom to “actually have a profession,” Kaplan added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Television and the sales pitch of domesticity have always been closely aligned.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

But often there were sheets and towels hanging to dry through the bars of windows, and this touch of domesticity always gave them hope.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Another gallery, on the second floor of the old mansion, is devoted to small domesticities, including photographs of families by Bruce Davidson and intimate scenes of ordinary life by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021

Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

But to all these domesticities the three maintained an absolute dumbness.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

To return to Shelley from the turmoil of our gross excitements and cramped domesticities is to bathe our foreheads in the "dew of the morning" and cool our hands in the ultimate Sea.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

She co-operated in domesticities with her useful neighbour, glancing once or twice at the figure on the bed, and reinforced in the belief that all was safe there, for the time.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan