Chronology - Chief Events of the Victorian Age in England; Introduction - the Victorians and their World; Historical Overview; The Foundations of Daily Life - Class, Tradition and Money; Working Life; Technology, Science and the Urban World; Official Life - Government and the Law; The Material Substance of Private Life - House, Food and Clothes; Family and Social Rituals; Education; Health and Medicine; Leisure and Pleasure - Holidays, Sports and Recreation; Faith and Works - Religion and Reform; "Victorian Morality"; England and Empire.
The most comprehensive social history of Victorian England to date.
SALLY MITCHELL is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Mitchell did her doctoral work at Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar. In addition to editing Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, she has written several scholarly books on Victorian literature and culture, has read hundreds of popular Victorian novels, magazines, schoolbooks, and advice manuals, and has served on the Modern Language Association Division Executive Committee for the Victorian Period.
.,."highly readable, attractively produced and illustrated, and
more detailed and textured for beginning students."-Albion
"The first thing to say about Daily Life in Victorian England is
"it's about time." ...[The author] has provided an easy to read
summary of information about the ordinary experience of most people
during the nineteenth century in Great Britain....It is written in
a clear, uncomplicated manner....The finest feature of this book is
how much it surveys and how simply it does so....Mitchell has
provided a splendid tool for students, both undergraduate and
graduate.... [I]t is an extraordinary accomplishment to condense so
much basic information in such readable text. Students directed to
this book will find all the essentials that they require to
understand the daily life of most Victorians, no matter of what
class or gender. Every library will want to have at least one copy
of this book available for student use..."-Victorian Studies
?...highly readable, attractively produced and illustrated, and
more detailed and textured for beginning students.?-Albion
?Spanning over 60 years of the era's growth from rural to urban to
industrial society, Mitchell draws a clear picture of physical,
social, economic, and legal aspects of life in the three basic
classes of English society--working class, middle class, and
aristocracy--and the rules and traditions that goverened each. Each
chapter deals with a different subject: work, technology and
science, home life, education, health and medicine. The chapters
make interesting reading for general background or can be used as a
reference....Recommended.?-The Book Report
?The first thing to say about Daily Life in Victorian England is
"it's about time." ...[The author] has provided an easy to read
summary of information about the ordinary experience of most people
during the nineteenth century in Great Britain....It is written in
a clear, uncomplicated manner....The finest feature of this book is
how much it surveys and how simply it does so....Mitchell has
provided a splendid tool for students, both undergraduate and
graduate.... [I]t is an extraordinary accomplishment to condense so
much basic information in such readable text. Students directed to
this book will find all the essentials that they require to
understand the daily life of most Victorians, no matter of what
class or gender. Every library will want to have at least one copy
of this book available for student use...?-Victorian Studies
?The simply written but engaging text seems suited...includes
illustrations as well as excerpts from primary sources.... Daily
Life is a useful companion to the life of Victorian
England.?-English Literature in Transition
..."highly readable, attractively produced and illustrated, and
more detailed and textured for beginning students."-Albion
"Spanning over 60 years of the era's growth from rural to urban to
industrial society, Mitchell draws a clear picture of physical,
social, economic, and legal aspects of life in the three basic
classes of English society--working class, middle class, and
aristocracy--and the rules and traditions that goverened each. Each
chapter deals with a different subject: work, technology and
science, home life, education, health and medicine. The chapters
make interesting reading for general background or can be used as a
reference....Recommended."-The Book Report
"The simply written but engaging text seems suited...includes
illustrations as well as excerpts from primary sources.... Daily
Life is a useful companion to the life of Victorian
England."-English Literature in Transition
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