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Victorian London is split into chapters, each dealing with an aspect of London life, starting with Smells and ending with Death. OL1853138W Page_number_confidence 92.72 Pages 502 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211009111420 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 466 Scandate 20211007161742 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780753820902 Tts_version 4. Liza Picard has achieved what many authors only dream of: to be informative, interesting, and witty. 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.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:06:49 Boxid IA40257015 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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 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, such as Peter Jones and 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.

Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.

Victorian London by Liza Picard