How to Be a Victorian - A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
How to Be a Victorian - A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine…
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How to Be a Victorian - A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
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). Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty.
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 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.