OL17502172W Page_number_confidence 97.11 Pages 480 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220124192329 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 561 Scandate 20220123032312 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780670921355 Tts_version 4. This book also makes a great companion to a good Victorian novel, like Dickens or Disraeli.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:06:58 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40336619 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Houghton’s classic The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870.

If you want to understand how Victorians thought, you read Walter E.

The funniest thing about it is how many Victorian practices, especially in regard to personal hygiene, are becoming popular again - every woman I know is smearing coconut oil on her split ends, which is precisely what women were doing 150 years ago. This book is over 400 pages of you and me. So when she describes using the indoor privy or brushing her teeth with cardamom or walking with a hoop skirt, she is actually talking about personal experience. Ruth Goodman's approach is to structure the book around the chronology of a typical day, and her meticulous research is interrupted by her hilarious insertions of personal experience - because she's been a history consultant for historic estates, she has done most of these activities, exactly as the Victorians did them.

Having spent a year on a Victorian farm, among other antiquated kinds, and written about it (co-author: Victorian Farm: Rediscovering. I'm so much more interested in history books that deal in domestic life rather than sweeping military conflicts, and this is infinitely satisfying. Corsets, child labor and a mortal fear of masturbation: a wonderfully detailed romp through the day-to-day reality of life for Victorian men and women. This doesn't change the fact that it is funny, insightful, and a really terrific approach to history. This made an appearance on NPR's Best Books of 2014 (which is my go-to place for book recommendations), and I hinted heavily that I wanted it for Christmas, but my friends and family, who are the blog's only dedicated readers, missed the hint, so I had to get it at the library like a friendless orphan.

How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman