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What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women’s rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin’s discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Victorian daily living, including women’s roles; Victorian Morality; leisure; health and medicine; and life in all settings, from workhouses to country estates. This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the deta… More >>
Daily Life in Victorian England
This book practially wrote my report for me. I guess I shouldn’t have told others; now I can’t find it anywhere! It is also a pleasure to read. Rating: 4 / 5
I’m writing a novel which takes place through much of this period and i found the information here most helpful Thank you Sally Mitchell – Thank you Amazon.com. Rating: 5 / 5
This is an excellent general reference for the workings of life in Victorian England. However, because the subject matter is so broad, the text inevitably can not offer significant depth in any one area. As a general reference for Victorian England, it servers its purpose well, and can give the casual reader or even professional historian an overview of almost any subject. However, for those seeking to fully understand one of the topic areas in greater detail, this book doesn’t measure up. Rating: 4 / 5
This book does provide a useful overview, well adapted to settings such as classrooms, where readers are likely to be having their first exposure to the Victorian era.
For those, such as myself, who are adults who have studied or explored the Victorian age in the past, there is nothing really new here, and the organisation and tone of writing, which assumes no previous knowledge and is very much “junior high” level, make it a less than engaging read. Rating: 3 / 5
I have made a very thorough (though amateur) study of the Victorian period, and as such, I have read many reference texts, but I often come back to Dr. Mitchell’s book for fun and for its completeness. The way she easily sums up concepts and creates a real picture is engaging and informative. This book is especially good for first timers, but she doesn’t stick exclusively to explaining novels, the way some do. Above all, there is a real expression of the hardship of the forgotten working class; their perilous but proud existance, their very “cheap” lives, their “go it alone” attitude. This population made up 3/4th of the country and is antithetical to the nobles and squires often celebrated in Victorian novels. I highly recommend this book. Rating: 5 / 5