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Uncover Victorian London’s hidden realities: poverty, crime, and progress unveiled.
Victorian London
The Life of a City 1840-1870
$34.39
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2006
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Summary
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author’s passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - 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
- Public utilities: Bazalgette on sewers a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753820902 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753820900 |
| Author: | Liza Picard |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Life of London |
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Critics Review
A highly readable account of nineteenth-century London… Picard’s book is a mine of information told with great enthusiasm and passion. - EXPRESS (7/7/06)
This is a comprehensive history by anecdote, so the enlightening facts come thick and fast… Picard enforces the idea that history really is all around us. - TELEGRAPH (8/7/06)Her survey of Victorian London is as enjoyably wide-ranging as her previous volumes, and her curiosity about apparent trivia resurrects the realities of the past more successfully than many more solemn works of social and political analysis do. - SUNDAY TIMES (30/7/06)About The Author
Liza Picard
Liza Picard was born in 1927. She worked for the Inland Revenue for many years and lived in London, before retiring to Oxford where she now lives.
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