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A revelatory Wall Street Journal romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the the cheapest time-travel machine youll find NPR. Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors New Republic of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodmans account of Victorian life makes you feel as if you could pass as a native The New Yorker.
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Ruth Goodman is a historian of British social and domestic life. She has advised the Royal Shakespeare Company's Globe Theatre and presented a number of BBC television series, including Victorian Farm. She lives in England.
