The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London by Flanders, Judith, author instant download

The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London by Flanders, Judith, author instant download

xxiv, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm, From Judith Flanders, the bestselling popular historian, comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of Britain's - and the world's - greatest novelists, Charles Dickens, Originally published: 2012, Includes bibliographical references and index, The city wakes. 1810 : The Berners Street Hoax ; Early to rise ; On the road ; Travelling (mostly) hopefully ; In and out of London -- Staying alive. 1861 : The Tooley Street Fire ; The world's market ; Selling the streets ; Slumming ; The waters of death -- Enjoying life. 1867 : The Regent's Park Skating Disaster ; Street performance ; Leisure for all ; Feeding the streets ; Street theatre -- Sleeping and awake. 1852 : The funeral of the Duke of Wellington ; Night entertainment ; Street violence ; The red-lit streets to death -- Dickens' publications