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Item Details
Title:
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VICTORIAN LONDON
THE LIFE OF A CITY 1840-1870 |
By: |
Liza Picard |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£10.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1780226527 |
ISBN 13: |
9781780226521 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
23 May, 2013 |
Edition: |
Digital original |
Synopsis: |
From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian LondonLike her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, e.g. Peter Jones, Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan. |
Illustrations: |
40 Illustrations, unspecified |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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