Product Description

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #167268 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x 1.22" w x 5.08" l, .79 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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Review
'A highly readable account of nineteenth-century London... Picard's book is a mine of information told with great enthusiasm and passion.' (EXPRESS (7/7/06) )

'This is a comprehensive history by anecdote, so the enlightening facts come thick and fast... Picard enforces the idea that history really is all around us.' (TELEGRAPH (8/7/06) )

'Her survey of Victorian London is as enjoyably wide-ranging as her previous volumes, and her curiosity about apparent trivia resurrects the realities of the past more successfully than many more solemn works of social and political analysis do.' (SUNDAY TIMES (30/7/06) )

Philip Hensher, THE SPECTATOR
'She is an engaging companion, always wondering out loud about the sort of questions which you've asked yourself........an enjoyable book.'

Tristrum Hunt, NEW STATESMAN
'Picard enjoys recounting the gruesome daily mechanics of living in what Cobbett described as 'the great wen''