Things to be Remembered in Daily Life | Victorian Practical Wisdom for Self-Culture, Moral Conduct, Household Management, and Useful Knowledge

John Timbs

ISBN 10: 8027290090 / ISBN 13: 9788027290093

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Things to be Remembered in Daily Life | Victorian Practical Wisdom for Self-Culture, Moral Conduct, Household Management, and Useful Knowledge | John Timbs | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Good Press | EAN 9788027290093 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: OK Publishing s.r.o., 20a, Kosíre, Zahradníckova 1220, 150 00 PRAGUE, TSCHECHIEN, obrody[at]gmail[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Things to be Remembered in Daily Life | Victorian Practical Wisdom for Self-Culture, Moral Conduct, Household Management, and Useful Knowledge
• Publisher: Good Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8027290090
• ISBN 13: 9788027290093
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 12D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 312 grams
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John Timbs's Things to be Remembered in Daily Life is a compact Victorian miscellany of practical counsel, moral reflection, and cultivated observation. Arranged as memorable precepts rather than a continuous argument, it belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of improving literature: books designed to refine habits, sharpen judgment, and make useful knowledge available to the ordinary reader. Its style is lucid, aphoristic, and conversational, combining anecdote, quotation, and common-sense instruction in a manner that reflects the period's faith in self-culture and disciplined attention. Timbs, a prolific English author, editor, and antiquary, was especially known for transforming historical, scientific, and urban curiosities into accessible prose. His long career in journalism and popular compilation—most famously in works on London, invention, and everyday knowledge—equipped him to gather scattered wisdom into readable form. Things to be Remembered in Daily Life reflects his characteristic purpose: to preserve useful facts and moral lessons before they vanish into forgetfulness. This book is recommended to readers interested in Victorian self-improvement, the history of popular education, and the literary culture of useful knowledge. It offers not only advice for conduct, but also a revealing portrait of what nineteenth-century readers were encouraged to notice, remember, and value.