Victorian London The Tale of a City 1840-1870

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780312366599
  • 20 februari 2007
  • 368 pagina's
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Like 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.;All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled.

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Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
20 februari 2007
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368
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Hoofdauteur
Liza Picard
Hoofduitgeverij
Griffin

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152 mm
Product hoogte
32 mm
Product lengte
229 mm
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32 mm
Verpakking lengte
226 mm
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567 g

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  • All by all, an excellent read.

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    It´s an incredible book if your´e researching Victorian London.
    When I red it, I could almost hear the carriage pass by, the costermonger on his corner selling his wares to the occasional passer-by.
    The book takes you along roads and into the alleyways of sin and virtue.
    From prostitutes to high-born ladies, from life to death.
    Beautiful illustrations and old photographs enhence its believability.
    "What you got for your money;" is my favourite part, explaining what you could buy for your pence, shillings and pounds. I defiently should pay my maid-of-all-work more, because the crinoline I wanted costed 6 shilling and 6 pence and she earns only an anual wage of 6 pounds.

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