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Synopsis
The historian and presenter of BBC2's Victorian Farm, Ruth Goodman offers an unusual history of Victorian everyday life. From the noise of a 'knocker-upper' first thing in the morning to the end of the day behind the bedroom door, she draws on diaries and letters, newspapers, adverts and advice manuals to illuminate topics such as health, personal grooming, food, work and school in the lives of ordinary people and reveal the intimate and physical aspects of 19th-century living.
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Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life (Dr Ian Mortimer, author of 'The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England')
A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph (Judith Flanders, author of 'The Victorian City')
Shocking, exciting, wonderful (Clive Anderson BBC Radio 4)
Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life (Dr Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England)
A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph (Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City)
I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing ... there's scarcely a detail of Victorian life Ruth has not tried (A N Wilson Mail on Sunday)
Ruth - a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could probably can the overflow to sell on the side (Independent)
Goodman's enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for misty-eyed interpretations of it (Telegraph)
Beetonian, compendious (Guardian)
Highly readable, often amusing and sometimes shocking, this is popular history at its best (BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine)
About the Author
Popular Historian Ruth Goodman is an expert in nineteenth-century social and domestic history and has presented a number of BBC television series, including Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm. She spent ten years as a historical advisor to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Globe Theatre and also appeared in the BBC2 programme 'Tales from the Banquet Hall'. She is a regular presenter on The One Show and has co-authored three books, including the Number One Bestseller Victorian Farm.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0670921351
- ISBN 13 9780670921355
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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