![]() ![]() ![]() Ntertaining… Goodman mixes historical context with technical know-how in addition to explaining why women wore corsets she tries wearing-and even making-one herself… he book’s accumulation of detail on matters as diverse as purchasing a ticket for the new underground railway, administering an opium-based tonic to a baby, and signaling interest in a homosexual affair makes you feel as if you could pass as a native. Alexandra Kimball - Wall Street Journal Goodman’s fascination with the objects of the past doesn’t lead her to fetishize or romanticize them. If the past is a foreign country because they do things differently there, we’re lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman…. Erin Entrada Kelly - Library Journal, Starred review Goodman skillfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose… Compulsively readable. Goodman’s impeccably researched account will raise readers’ eyebrows with her adventures “living history”… charming guide richly illustrates what daily life was like for common people undergoing the massive social changes of the time and succeeds in presenting “a more intimate, personal and physical sort of history." ![]()
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