This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...
The 19th century, as she says, "was the century of urbanization." Whereas in 1801 "only 20 percent of the population of Great Britain lived in cities," a century later "that figure had risen to nearly ...
After spending a considerable amount of time enjoying roughly five play-throughs in Half-Life 2, I've noticed the European influences on the setting. Specifically distinct similarities with Victorian ...
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...
Eliza Scarlet teams up with a Scotland Yard Detective known as “The Duke” to solve crimes in Victorian England together. When her father dies, Eliza Scarlet finds herself facing a difficult choice. As ...
Lust is threatening to tear John Addington’s life apart. It haunts his dreams, governs his thoughts: “Lust, not as quickened heartbeat or lurch into dizzy possibility, but as lagging sickness, a ...
Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...
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