Abstract
The articles in this special issue address the ways in which domesticity has been constructed in forms of discourse intended to advise. The sources consulted relate to the design of the home and to the consumption of design in the home and might usefully be termed 'domestic design advice'. They include etiquette, homemaking and home decoration advice literature as it appeared in Britain, France and the United States. The articles range across half a century of advice from 1860 to 1913.' Design historians have usually employed advice as complementary or additional source material. The originality of the following studies resides in their focal concern with advice for the purposes of understanding the history of design. Such originality is borne out by the need in this introduction to range beyond the concerns of design history into related fields such as historical sociology, American studies and cultural history in seeking models of the use of advice representative of methodological concerns and recurring themes. This
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