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Title: Daily Life in Victorian England by Sally Mitchell ISBN: 0-313-29467-4 Publisher: Greenwood Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Best for those for whom it is a total introduction
Comment: This book does provide a useful overview, well adapted to settings such as classrooms, where readers are likely to be having their first exposure to the Victorian era.
For those, such as myself, who are adults who have studied or explored the Victorian age in the past, there is nothing really new here, and the organisation and tone of writing, which assumes no previous knowledge and is very much "junior high" level, make it a less than engaging read.
Rating: 5
Summary: indepth and invaluable
Comment: In doing extensive research on the basic, every day living of people in Victorian England, I found this book to be an invaluable source to my work. Of all of the books that I ordered, Mitchell's guide to Victorian England truly gives the reader a picture of people, places, and ideas that is only dealt with on surface levels in other texts. For my own work, this book was a savior!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptional!
Comment: You know, if history classes in schools used books like the 'Daily Life' series as their text, I'm sure alot more kids would not find history so boring. In fact, many kids would probably actually enjoy it! Written in a highly readable 'you are there' style, they truly bring the past to life. Daily Life In Victorian England by Sally Mitchell is no exception. I've used it extensively to add 'flesh to the bones' of my long dead English ancestors in my genealogy research. My ancestors were far from rich and this book explains, in descriptive detail, how they lived and survived; from a description of what their small cottage may have looked like, to the food they ate, to the clothes they wore, and even what type of lighting they had (hint: they probably did not use candles early on!). Birth, baptism, marriage, death and dying, funerals, celebrations- it's all here. And, as I mentioned above, it doesn't just concentrate on the well to do, but ALL the classes of people. This is really a wonderfully written book that is highly recommended. Any interest at all in this era, then it is a MUST HAVE.
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Title: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool ISBN: 0671882368 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Victorian Woman by Suzanne Fagence Cooper ISBN: 0810965801 Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, Students & Historians by Marc McCutcheon ISBN: 1582970637 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette by Thomas E. Hill ISBN: 0912517123 Publisher: Bluewood Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs by J. Thomson, John Thomson, Adolphe Smith ISBN: 0486281213 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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