How to be a Victorian : a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.
General Note
Includes index.
Description
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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