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– How to be a Victorian
How to be a Victorian
«A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph»
Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City
We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and sprinkle tea leaves on the carpet? Drink beer for breakfast... Les mer
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We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and sprinkle tea leaves on the carpet? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish?
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 464
- ISBN
- 9780670921362
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph»
Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City
«Shocking, exciting, wonderful»
Clive Anderson, BBC Radio 4
«I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing ... there's scarcely a detail of Victorian life Ruth has not tried»
A N Wilson, Mail on Sunday
«Ruth - a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could probably can the overflow to sell on the side»
Independent
«Goodman's enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for misty-eyed interpretations of it»
Telegraph
«Beetonian, compendious»
Guardian
«Highly readable, often amusing and sometimes shocking, this is popular history at its best»
BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine
«A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph»
Judith Flanders, author of 'The Victorian City'
«Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life»
Dr Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
«Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life»
Dr Ian Mortimer, author of 'The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England'
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