The Victorian City : Everyday Life in Dickens' London (Paperback)

from nemoman

An excellent book of readable history. Although the book's title connotes Victorian London, it is more Dicken's London, and in terms of politics it is Ayn Rand's London. Dicken's novels chronicled the dark side of the industrial revolution in London and this book tracks it. We are reminded of wha...

from Mouldywarp

Entertaining and informative.

from Diana_Long_Thomas

Read for #NonfictionNovember2017 Another great book by Judith Flanders. While still focused on Victorian history this one focuses on London as a whole. In this book she writes more about the lower classes, only touching on the upper classes when discussing the poor laws and the various relief pr...

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This 520 page book is huge in scope, although the last 100 pages are notes, index, and bibliography. It covers the London roads, theaters and entertainments, eating habits and places, the huge number of street sellers (and how specialized they were!), the waterways, rail (above and underground), ...

from souloftherose

The title of this book is somewhat misleading; it is a detailed look at everyday life in the London Charles Dickens knew so well, but this London was not strictly Victorian as Queen Victoria only came to the throne midway through Dickens' life in 1837 and this book covers life in London from 1810...