Title: How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Description: Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, she celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to the rapping of a "knocker-upper man" on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroom for the ideal combination of "love, consideration, control and pleasure," the weird, wonderful, and somewhat gruesome intricacies of Victorian life are vividly rendered.
Subjects: Social conditions, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, History, Social history, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901, Great britain, social conditions, Great britain, social life and customs, New York Times reviewed, Historical reenactments