Picard Liza
Victorian London The Life Of A City 1840 - 1870
Victorian London The Life Of A City 1840 - 1870
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Description: 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 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 such as Peter Jones and 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.
Title: Victorian London The Life Of A City 1840 - 1870
Author(s): Picard Liza
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9780753820902
Pages: 496 Pages, 40
Publication Date: 6/1/2006
Series: Life of London
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
Description: 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 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 such as Peter Jones and 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.
Title: Victorian London The Life Of A City 1840 - 1870
Author(s): Picard Liza
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Barcode: 9780753820902
Pages: 496 Pages, 40
Publication Date: 6/1/2006
Series: Life of London
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
