Victorian London : The Life of a City 1840-1870 (9780752872186)

Like her previous books, this book will be the result 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 encompasses a huge range of subjects : Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, e.g. Peter Jones, Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled.

Product details

• Format CD-Audio
• Dimensions 125 x 142 x 24mm | 230g
• Publication date 25 Aug 2005
• Publisher Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• ISBN10 0752872184
• ISBN13 9780752872186
• Bestsellers rank 2,875,825

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