How to Live in the Victorian Era: Everyday Reality in 19th Century England
14.99 €
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How to Live in the Victorian Era: Everyday Reality in 19th Century England
14.99 €
How did ordinary Englishmen of bygone eras live and work, eat, treat, ride, dress and entertain? What was it like to cook on coal, drink beer for breakfast, brush their teeth with ground cuttlefish bones, ride to work in a horse-drawn omnibus and labor around the house in a corset? This book by a respected British historian, based on solid documentary material (diaries, letters, autobiographies, periodicals and books), reveals many aspects of a typical nineteenth-century daily routine, including food, health care, intimacy, fashion, work and entertainment. Featuring a range of black-and-white and color illustrations, the book is a vivid collection of surprising customs, habits, and details of the private lives of the British during Queen Victoria's reign. "I want to explore a history of the private, the personal, the material that celebrates the commonplace and allows me to recreate the lives of ordinary people, adults and children, through contact with their everyday lives. I intend to understand how our ancestors thought, to learn about their hopes, fears, and speculations. I will look at all aspects of Victorian everyday life and invite you to go where I myself have wandered in search of traces of that era. From the very beginning, I've focused a lot on the experimental aspect of trying to understand the past. I like to immerse myself in the study of things that people made and used in the past and experience how they worked" (Ruth Goodman).
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