How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life - Rilegato

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Goodman, Ruth

 
9780871404855: How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
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ISBN 10: 0871404850 ISBN 13: 9780871404855
Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2022

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Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her ownadventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves asour bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding fromdaybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives ofthe most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to the rappingof a “knocker-upper man” on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round ofcalisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroomfor the ideal combination of “love, consideration, control and pleasure,” the weird,wonderful, and somewhat gruesome intricacies of Victorian life are vividly renderedhere. How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious.

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Editore
Liveright Pub Corp
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0871404850
ISBN 13 
9780871404855
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
458
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9781631491139: How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

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ISBN 10:  163149113X ISBN 13:  9781631491139
Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2015
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