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Consuming Passions - Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

Paperback • 2007 • English

Consuming Passions - Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

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About the book

A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’. Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot drink. That was what England was like in the early eighteenth century. Yet by the close of the nin...Show more

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9780007172962

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Consuming Passions - Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

Format

Paperback

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