TY - BOOK AU - Stern,Rebecca ED - Project Muse. TI - Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England SN - 9780814272008 AV - PR468.F72 S74 2008 U1 - 820.9/355 22 PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Fraud KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Fraud in popular culture KW - Capitalism in literature KW - Swindlers and swindling in literature KW - Home economics in literature KW - Popular literature KW - History and criticism KW - English literature KW - Fraud in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index; Introduction. Fraud at home : the private life of capitalism -- Genre trouble : the Tichborne claimant, popular narrative, and the dangerous pleasures of domestic fraud -- Brinks jobs : servants, thresholds, and portable property -- Dangerous provisions: Victorian food fraud -- Speculating on marriage : fraud, narrative, and the business of Victorian wedlock -- Conclusion. Child rearing, time bargains, and the modern life of fraud; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27904/ ER -