One Hot Summer - Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 Ashton Rosemary Paperback
One Hot Summer - Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 Ashton Rosemary Paperback A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the…
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One Hot Summer - Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 Ashton Rosemary Paperback
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summerWhile 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence.Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three protagonists--Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points.
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