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Product: This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
Description: We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?

From Victorian beauty regimes to 19th-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore 19th-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the 21st century.

In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the 19th century.
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Product: The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Description: The 19th century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of six-and-a-half million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology - railways, street-lighting, and sewers - transformed both the city and the experience of city living, as London expanded in every direction.

Now, Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities, and cruelties.

Now, with him, Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses, and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor.
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Product: The Dream
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Product: A Window into the Past: A Mother and Two Daughters' Letters from the Turn of the Century
Description: The story is about women’s farm life in Union County, Ohio at the turn of the twentieth century. The mother, Samantha and her daughters Rosa and Mary exchange letters for fifteen years about a variety of topics of the daily life of living on the farm.
Rosa and Mary exchange vows with much older, highly successful and previously married men. They both are the quiet, pious homemaker as expected of them by their husbands. They are also the anchor of the home, business women of their own and valued contributors to their husband’s success. The women’s family story is also expanded to 100 years of family history in Union and Champaign Counties, Ohio.
Samantha McAdams, her family and her upbringing start the chapter of history of the women and their husbands. Samantha’s mother died and her dad went to fight in the Civil War. The children were separated and shipped off to relatives. Her father Gideon was a ne’er do well who following the war, spent thirty-fire years in the county but not in touch with Samantha or her family.
Samantha’s daughter Rosa, met and married Isaac Campbell, who was the same age as her father Wilmer McAdams. Isaac built the town of Grenola, Kansas which at the time was the main shipping stockyard for cattle. After a horrific accident in which he killed his wife, he fell on hard times. He left his children with relatives and moved to Union County, Ohio.
Samantha’s younger daughter Mary, married a successful farmer and politician named Lester Clark. His great-grandfather and grandfather were early settlers of North Lewisburg, Ohio. He was related to many of the town’s 800 residents.
A series of letters written from 1897 until 1913 between the three women. They reveal the individual personalities of Samantha, Rosa and Mary. Samantha, a bit of a hypochondriac, desires the closeness of her daughters. Rosa, independent by nature often writes of her husband’s frailties. Mary often has live-in help and explores music, as well as having two children which keep her life busy.
They all write of life and health of neighbors and themselves. Chronic illness and disease were prevalent and the ladies kept each other up to date on local happenings. They also wrote of the everyday duties of farm life…cooking, canning, butchering, and animal husbandry. Individuals of each family were always a topic of each letter.

Telephones became common in 1913 and the letters ceased. Mary and Lester moved back to their newly renovated North Lewisburg home. Rosa divorced Isaac Campbell due to his erratic and increasingly bizarre behavior. Rosa moved in with Samantha and Wilmer McAdams. For the first time in decades the ladies live close to each other. They now see each other daily. Samantha’s health waned through 1914 until her death of heart failure in the fall. Isaac’s mental health deteriorated to the extent where the local headlines were written in the fall of 1915, “Insane Man Arrested”. Isaac died the summer of 1916. Rosa paid for his body to be shipped back to Kansas.
During the summer of 1918 World War I was being fought in Europe. Food was rationed so it could be sent to the troops at war. Mary wasn’t feeling well. She spent a month in Grant Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, with Rosa and Nurse Anna Boyle at her side. Lester was concerned about the cost of the stay and did not visit until Mary demanded it. Mary’s children, Earl and Florence, toughed out the month and were glad to finally have Mary home. January 31, 1919 Anna Boyle compassionately wrote Mary a good-bye letter, “May God bless you and give you strength to do His will in all things.”
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Product: Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care
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Product: A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life
Description: In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living.

Part journal, part commonplace book, among many gems you will find enlightenment and advice on everything from Dreams to Garlic; Patriotism to Wrinkles.

Written throughout her life but only discovered after her death, by her great-great nephew, Christopher Rush, Elspeth's (known as Aunt Epp) journal was never intended for publication but her style of writing and the subject matter she covers nonetheless reaches a universal audience. Not afraid to put forth views on the big topics - religion, evolution, and ethical issues - she also tackles the nuts and bolts of living - food, sex and health.

Vital, refreshingly frank and always amusing, A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life provides a wealth of sound advice.
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Product: Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
Description: An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)
Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions.
From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.
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Product: Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Description: Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.)
Unmentionable is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: What to wear Where to relieve yourself How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating What to expect on your wedding night How to be the perfect Victorian wife Why masturbating will kill you And more!
Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, Unmentionable will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not dying of the syphilis your husband brought home.)
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Product: How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Product: Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Brand: Vintage
Color: Multicolor
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Product: Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
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Product: Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary secrets and servants' stories
Brand: Pen and Sword History
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Product: Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (Victorian Life and Times)
Brand: Praeger
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Product: Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (Everyday Life in America)
Brand: Harper Perennial
A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life is a detailed, lively survey of the commonplace objects, events, experiences, products, and tastes that comprised America's Victorian culture, expressed its values, and shaped modern life
But the book is not all trivia, not just the Juicy Fruit gum and the cafeteria-eating that Americans discovered at the San Francisco Fair
Schlereth, a writer of immense tact and range, recounts with equal interest and vitality the whole constellation of events that surrounded the development of suburban living, domestic history, the labor movement, the architecture of colleges-and conveys it scamlessly
The notes reveal something of his erudition, his ability to see the relationships, to depict unpretentiously this complex period of cultural history with all its ironies and color. A splendid achievement
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Product: The Victorian House : Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
Description: The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories -- even lavatory paper -- arrived slowly throughout the century, and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous. Judith Flanders, author of the widely acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters', has written an incisive and irresistible portrait of Victorian domestic life. The book itself is laid out like a house, following the story of daily life from room to room: from childbirth in the master bedroom, through the scullery, kitchen and dining room -- cleaning, dining, entertaining -- on upwards, ending in the sickroom and death. Through a collage of diaries, letters, advice books, magazines and paintings, Flanders shows how social history is built up out of tiny domestic details. Through these we can understand the desires, motivations and thoughts of the age. Many people today live in Victorian terraces, and so the houses themselves are familiar, but the lives are not. 'The Victorian House' will change all that.
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