Daily Life in Victorian London : An Extraordinary Anthology (Victorian London Ebooks Book 4)

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It is beautifully put together and a must for any fan or scholar. My favourite highlight of which there are many is the description of 'A Baby Show' it had me in tears of laughter, while other sections left me with suspiciously moist eyes. As I am running out of different words for 'fabulous' and 'fascinating' and 'wonderful', I'll bring this to a close. But first, a thank you to the author for sharing his vast font of knowledge on the era, and for all the wonderfully fabulously fascinating there I go again snippets of information that I can now casually throw out at dinner parties or while at the nearest drinking establishment, causing the assembled to gasp in wonderment.

You, Sir, are a Gentleman. Nov 05, stephanie suh rated it it was amazing Shelves: In this book, the reader will peep into many lives of different folks, kinds of job they had, the work conditions, and the places they went for recreations on holidays, and feel empathic towards their victorian kindred spirits. However, this is not a book of insalubrious living conditions for the proletariat, nor the litany of existential woes in living hard lives.

In fact, reading this book is like reading a Charles Dickens's story featuring an Oliver Twists, a Pip, a David Copperfield, and many others of interesting characters working for odd jobs. This book is about the humble but vibrant in Victorian London who were never the boring. Jan 06, Christine Blachford rated it liked it. As the book is in small, neat chapters — an encyclopedia of Victorian anecdotes — it was very easy to pick up and put down again, fill in a spare moment here or there.

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The content is made up of a collection of articles, letters and chapters from various places, all relating to matters of Victorian London. Set out alphabetically, we travel through all kinds of things from advertising through to what goes into London gin, as well as the practicalities of pawnbroking.

With a variety of different sources, your mileage really does vary on what you get. Nov 19, Cynthia rated it liked it Shelves: However, I have an ingrained aversion to cherry-picked primary sources that do not convey the full context or breadth of opinion in Victorian society. For instance, it makes me uneasy that there was were several commentaries on working women by Arthur Munby a man who had some unique and unorthodox views on the subject to put it mildly without any attempt at contextualization.

I'm almost certainly asking too much of this book, which isn't intended to be a series of theses, but I found the methodology shoddy enough as to be misleading to someone who might approach it without any background in the subject, and that doesn't sit well with me. Feb 23, Amelia rated it it was amazing Shelves: I've been a fan of Lee Jackson's Victorian London website for years. In this anthology, he's pulled together some of the most fascinating bits of Victorian life for us to read. The original sources are quite varied, as are the topics.

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It's an entertaining, informative, and occasionally an eye-opening and grim read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about Victorian London in words written by people who actually experienced Victorian London. Aug 22, Harry Rutherford rated it really liked it Shelves: This is an anthology for the Kindle compiled by Lee Jackson, proprietor of the website The Victorian Dictionary, which anyone who has some interest in either Victoriana or London will surely have stumbled on at some time or another.

If you have visited the website, you'll know what a great resource it is, and you won't be surprised to hear that Jackson has compiled an anthology full of curious and interesting snippets about such subjects as a 'B' meeting, a baby show, a balloon ride, bar-maids, b This is an anthology for the Kindle compiled by Lee Jackson, proprietor of the website The Victorian Dictionary, which anyone who has some interest in either Victoriana or London will surely have stumbled on at some time or another.

If you have visited the website, you'll know what a great resource it is, and you won't be surprised to hear that Jackson has compiled an anthology full of curious and interesting snippets about such subjects as a 'B' meeting, a baby show, a balloon ride, bar-maids, bathing, bazaars, bed bugs, beggars, bicycle races, Billingsgate Market, black eyes, blackmail, the Blind-School, Bloomerism and burglars.

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And that's just the Bs. Oct 25, Kilian Metcalf rated it really liked it. From advertising to Zuleilah, this compendium of contemporary letters, essays, advices, newspaper articles, and advertisements, reveal glimpses of what ordinary life was like for the inhabitants of Victorian London. I particularly liked that all the entries are taken from original sources. I love Victorian literature and history, so I was familiar with many of the topics. I delighted with the topics that were new to me.

This book is a must for any writer of historical fiction or steampunk set in From advertising to Zuleilah, this compendium of contemporary letters, essays, advices, newspaper articles, and advertisements, reveal glimpses of what ordinary life was like for the inhabitants of Victorian London. This book is a must for any writer of historical fiction or steampunk set in Victorian London.

He has the potential to become one of my guilty pleasures and is a great find. The book contains a wide variety of selected readings that would be very hard to find on your own. I enjoyed reading people's complaints about rude omnibus drivers and the hookers on Haymarket Street. One story described the thrill of riding a horseless carriage and mused about how the horses would react. Another author expressed concern about how having telegraph offices within yards of every home would lead to an overload of interruptions from unimportant messages.

Another story described the upper class custom of holding "open house" days because planning social visits was so difficult. A good reminder that people have not changed that much even though the technological changes have been revolutionary. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. These selections are straight from the Victorians themselves and reveal a London I hadn't imagined. I'm sure my husband grew tired of me asking, "Did you know that? Living in poverty gained new meaning when you learn the tricks of pawning clothes or read about canals bubbling with noxious fumes.

At the sometime, the image of Victorian England as a sober, restrained country is belied by descriptions of raucous music halls, working girls linking arms and singing down the streets, freak-show exhibits of seals and crocodiles. Some of the selections expose more about the authors than they probably intended.

The jocular, patronizing tone of some authors, describing a "lower class" for the enjoyment of their better off readers, grates but is equally revealing of a way of life. I bought the book as a reference for writing, I ended up reading it just for the fun of it and for the fun of annoying friends and family with irrelevant facts. I've been a fan of Lee Jackson's Victorian London website for years. In this anthology, he's pulled together some of the most fascinating bits of Victorian life for us to read.

The original sources are quite varied, as are the topics. It's an entertaining, informative, and occasionally eye-opening and grim read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about Victorian London in words written by people who actually experienced Victorian London. This is a handy reference for fans of Victoriana as well as writers looking for the odd detail to add to their fiction. By no means an exhaustive resource, this eBook presents a random series of related articles and assorted other writings from the time period, mostly pertaining to the working and lower class, alphabetically for easy navigation.

My hats off to Lee Jackson for his tireless work in this series of eBooks as well as his website, the Dictionary of Victorian London. I was doing some research about how victorian households were run, and while this book did not focus on that, it had some good tidbits. It's not very long, however, and it would have been nice to have some annotations since some of victorian life is really quite foreign to the modern reader.

I think anyone looking for some insight into Victorian era life and particularly British victoriananna would do well to browse this book. One person found this helpful. Quite interesting if you like they're history of the common man as opposed to kings and such. I once had an anthropology professor who complained that we know little about the common man in ancient Egypt compared to the rulers and upper crust. This book will help us know how the Londoners actually struggled to get by.

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If you have ever been curious as to what it was like to live in Victorian London, then this book will answer any question you could think of, as well as many that wouldn't have come to mind. Fact filled and with a few laughs along the way, giving an in depth look at a bygone era showing the huge contrast between now and then. See all 36 reviews. Most recent customer reviews. Published on August 1, Published on October 1, Published on September 1, Published on July 19, Published on May 29, Published on November 9, Published on August 11, Published on April 19, Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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