Excerpt from The Homes of Other Days: A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England, From the Earliest Known Period to Modern Times

My dear Lord Lytton,

Years not a few are now passed away since the excellent romance of "Harold the Last of the Saxon Kings" was first given to the world. I have a vivid remembrance of the pleasure with which I read it I was then comparatively young, but earnest, in historical and archaeological research. I remember having been much struck with the description of the residence of the sorceress Hilda, - of the change from the Roman villa to the mansion of the Anglo-Saxon; and I felt the greatness of the instinctive appreciation of historical truth which was displayed in it. In reading this, as well as other parts of your Lordship's work, I often thought what a useful book would be a complete and carefully compiled history of the domestic manners and economy of our forefathers, from the earliest period at which we can obtain any knowledge of it down to more recent times, - in fact, to our own modem home. This idea often recurred to my thoughts, until an opportunity was given me of carrying it into effect, though imperfectly, in a series of papers in the then popular "Art Journal." These afterwards, revised and considerably enlarged, were published in a volume in 1862, to which I gave the simple title of "The History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England during the Middle Ages." This book was received favourably, and is now, I believe, out of print; and I have been induced to give to press a new edition, which I have so much altered in revision, and to which I have added so much, that it may be considered as a new work, and therefore I have considerably modified its title.

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