Picard, Liza Victorian London ISBN 13: 9780753820902

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

Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life 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, such as Peter Jones and 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.

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About the Author:

Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.

She read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, but did not practise. She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue before retiring to become a full-time author. She lives in London.

Review:
The glories of Picard's magpie style are immediately apparent. She paints a picture with deft, sure strokes, then finds the perfect quotation―Judith Flanders, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Liza Picard's Victorian London is a mine of information and very readable―Tony Benn

I was delighted, as usual, by Liza Picard's Victorian London, the fourth of her grand series on life in the capital―Jan Morris, OBSERVER

Her vivid panorama of London between 1840 and 1870―Michael Leapman, INDEPENDENT

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)

A wonderful achievement―Claire Tomalin

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)

Whether she is describing the music halls, such as the Alhambra in Leicester Square, or the criminal underworld, or the foundation of London University, or the lives of the costermongers, or the expansion of the middle-class suburbs, she never loses her eye for the telling detail. Reading her book is like gazing at one of those energetic, crowded canvases by the Victorian painter William Powel Frith, who brought the age to life through a multiplicity of detail―A. N. Wilson, EVENING STANDARD

Vividness is the book's aim, and this is achieved splendidly―ECONOMIST

Thus the book proceeds, by typifying anecdotes, which are well chosen and impeccably annotated, and all linked together by Picard's untroubling, readable prose―Adam Newey, GUARDIAN

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  • PublisherPhoenix
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0753820900
  • ISBN 13 9780753820902
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages496
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