A Victorian Childhood - Softcover

Thomson, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445121018 ISBN 13: 9781445121017

Publisher: Franklin Watts, 2013

Synopsis

A Victorian Childhood offers a look at the lives of Victorian children in Britain, focusing on four key areas: at home, at work, at school and at play. Period illustrations, photgraphs and artefacts help the reader to build up a complete picture of what it was to be a child in Victorian times.

About this title

Book Description:

The lives of Victorian children at home, work, school, and at play explored through a mixture of archive photography, period illustrations and artefacts.

About the Author:

Ruth Thomson is an award-winning educational author (with an MA in Museum and Gallery learning) , who specialises in writing books on art and history. Her art books include Grisly & Gruesome, Saints and Looking at Paintings for the National Gallery, London, a short biography of Georgia O'Keeffe and several hands-on art packs for Tate galleries. She has also co-written Posters and Propaganda in Wartime, published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum. Her history books include a series about Victorian childhood and books about Plains Indians and Aztecs. Ruth's interest in Terezín was sparked during research for an educational pack on Holocaust art for the London Gallery of Jewish Art. The gallery owns a powerful series of prints by Leo Haas, one of the artists featured in the book, and Ruth became intrigued to find out more about the place that had inspired them. As well as writing educational books, Ruth travels widely, collecting recycled artefacts, which she has shown in bespoke exhibitions at major British museums and galleries for the past 7 years. In her spare time, Ruth enjoys long-distance walking, stone carving and reading modern American literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1445121018
• ISBN 13: 9781445121017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96