How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life, (Paperback)

from Diana_Long_Thomas

Another book by Ruth Goodman. I have been wanting to read this one for awhile now, I just loved her in the various "Farm" series. I learned quite a bit on everyday life from this one. I was actually surprised at how much I didn't know about how people lived in this era, but I think it's because I...

from ROBERT

I recommend this book highly. Ruth Goodman does not just write about a historical period by drawing on previous books by other historians. She is not only a scholar, but a hands-on experiental historian. She has done everything that she writes about, and can give insights that only come from prac...

from lauriebrown54

As a social historian and TV presenter, Ruth Goodman has lived the life of the Victorians at times. She learned the skills, wore the clothing, ate the foods, and groomed herself in the way of the 19th century for weeks at a time. Here she presents the day to day life of the Victorians over a rang...

from susandennis

This was absolutely fascinating. I read it in short chunks over many weeks and hated when I got to the end. Ruth Goodman knows her stuff and shares it all from how Victorians went to the bathroom to their schools and their breakfasts. I generally have very little to know interest in history and y...

from Charles

Don't want to be a Tudor? Then be a Victorian. Social historian Ruth Goodman always offers a different perspective on a period in history, as anyone who has watched her in the various BBC series can attest. If you've seen her, you'll want this book. If you haven't seen her (fie on you), you absol...