Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A ârevelatoryâ (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the âthe cheapest time-travel machine youâll findâ (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work âimagines the Victorians as intrepid survivorsâ (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodmanâs account of Victorian life âmakes you feel as if you could pass as a nativeâ (The New Yorker).
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