How to be a Victorian : a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life /
Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, she celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
2014.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, she celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to the rapping of a "knocker-upper man" on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroom for the ideal combination of "love, consideration, control and pleasure," the weird, wonderful, and somewhat gruesome intricacies of Victorian life are vividly rendered. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd."--Title page verso. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780871404855 (hbk.) 0871404850 (hbk.) |