E.M. Delafield, of "Diary of A Provincial Lady' fame, has put together an excellent reference work to lesser known fiction that specifically deals with domestic life and habits in the mid -and late Victorian age.

The book is divided in sections dealing with different aspects of the Victorian home environment, for example:
"Papa and Mama", "only the Governess", "Enjoying Ill Health", "The Fair Sex", etc.

Salient detail is that this book was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, via Hogarth Press, London.

To give an impression of the writers represented in the book, below an extract of the author's foreword:

"My grateful acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Macmillan who have permitted me to quote so freely from the novels of Miss Yonge, those of Miss Broughton and one or two others.
Also to Messrs. Longmans Green for permission to quote from the works of Miss Sewell. My thanks also to Messrs. John Murray for permission to print the extract from "Vice Versa". (...)The illustrations have been taken from contemporary books and refer only to the general character of the section in which they appear."