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How to be a Victorian / Ruth Goodman.

By: Goodman, Ruth, 1963- [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Penguin, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: 458 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670921362Subject(s): Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901DDC classification: 941.081

Contents:

1.Getting Up -- 2.Getting Dressed -- 3.A Trip to the Privy -- 4.Personal Grooming -- 5.Morning Exercise -- 6.Breakfast -- 7.The Main Business of the Day -- 8.Back at the House -- 9.The Midday Meal -- 10.The Day's Work Presumes -- 11.Meanwhile, for the Young, There was School -- 12.A Few Snatched Hours of Leisure -- 13.The Evening Meal -- 14.A Bath before Bed -- 15.Behind the Bedroom Door.

Summary: What was it really like to be a Victorian? In this book, Ruth Goodman, historian and star of the BBC's Victorian Farm discovers what it was actually like to wear a corset, cook with coal, clean with tea leaves, feed opium to the baby and dozens of other everyday activities for your average Victorian family. From morning to night, kitchen to textile mill, How to be a Victorian uncovers the truth about nineteenth century life.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
wnor- Book	Wundowie Wundowie Adult Non Fiction	941.081 GOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31111057452763

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Previous	941 .066 MOR The time traveller's guide to Restoration Britain : a handbook for visitors to the years 1660-1700 /	941.00 MAK The Makers of English history /	941 STR The story of Britain : from the Romans to the present day /	941.081 GOO How to be a Victorian /	941.081 HEF High minds : the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain /	941.106 DEV The Scottish clearances : a history of the dispossessed, 1600-1900 / Land tenure Land reform	942 .046 DAV The last champion of York : Francis Lovell, Richard III's truest friend / Nobility	Next

Includes index.

What was it really like to be a Victorian? In this book, Ruth Goodman, historian and star of the BBC's Victorian Farm discovers what it was actually like to wear a corset, cook with coal, clean with tea leaves, feed opium to the baby and dozens of other everyday activities for your average Victorian family. From morning to night, kitchen to textile mill, How to be a Victorian uncovers the truth about nineteenth century life.

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