How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life available on October 24 2017 from Amazon for 11.75
How To Be A Victorian Reprint available on March 22 2017 from Newegg for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">15.23
ISBN bar code 9781631491139 ξ1 registered October 24 2017
ISBN bar code 9781631491139 ξ2 registered March 22 2017
A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work “imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors” (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodman’s account of Victorian life “makes you feel as if you could pass as a native” (The New Yorker). 131 illustrations, 8 pages of color
I found this book absolutely fascinating. It's all about the everyday things you wonder about but don't get to learn from most history books - how you would have kept yourself clean, washed your hair, done laundry, cooked, cleaned, etc. The author's experience living as a Victorian in BBC reality shows has enriched this book immensely. She tells us that corsets are surprisingly comfortable, although itchy, and describes how you had to learn to sit and move properly in a crin..
Great book - I don't know why it's getting knocked for too much detail...'dawn to dusk' kind of implies it's looking at the minutiae of everyday Victorian life, doesn't it??I think the BEST PART is the commentary that Ms. Goodman inserts into every section/portion of the day. For everyone who has ever read history & then asked "I wonder what it was like to use an outhouse in the winter??" or "what would it be like to lace tightly into a corset, every d..
I haven't finished this, but it is a very interesting read! I only wish it were more clear about when in the Victorian timeline things were happening. After all, anything from 1837-1901 is "Victorian." That's a lot of decades of change. I feel like the focus is on earlier stuff, but she does touch on some later developments. There are some images in the middle pages, which are kind of tiny, but nice references. The focus is on English life, but there was at..
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