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Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870
Liza Picard
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Description for Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870
Paperback. From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London Num Pages: 496 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 398.
From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.
Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753820902
SKU
V9780753820902
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Liza Picard
Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. She read law at the London School ... Read more
Reviews for Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870
I was delighted, as usual, by Liza Picard's Victorian London, the fourth of her grand series on life in the capital
Jan Morris
OBSERVER
This book is a feast of tit-bits, bringing 19th-century London to life piecemeal with the accumulation of facts ... a valuable addition to the literature of London
Jad Adams
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... Read more
Jan Morris
OBSERVER
This book is a feast of tit-bits, bringing 19th-century London to life piecemeal with the accumulation of facts ... a valuable addition to the literature of London
Jad Adams
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... Read more