4.1
Literatura Historyczna
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, e.g. Peter Jones, Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Read by Anton Lesser
(p) 2005 Orion Publishing Group
© 2006 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Audiobook): 9780752884721
Data wydania
Audiobook: 10 kwietnia 2006
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4.1
Literatura Historyczna
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, e.g. Peter Jones, Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Read by Anton Lesser
(p) 2005 Orion Publishing Group
© 2006 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Audiobook): 9780752884721
Data wydania
Audiobook: 10 kwietnia 2006
Tagi
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Adam
3 sty 2022
A subjective selection of interesting aspects of Victorian London life. Quite properly it starts with the smell and morbid sewers, the horrid life of the poor and abandoned and ends with the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. Contains lots of bizarre and fun facts, provokes imagination. Still, I had the impression that some of the weirdest parts might have been omitted, e.g. the infamous anti-masturbation contraptions of the time.
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