{"product_id":"victorian-london-book-liza-picard-9780312366599","title":"Victorian London","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike its acclaimed companion volumes, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth's London\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRestoration London \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDr Johnson's London\u003c\/i\u003e, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert \u0026amp; Sullivan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347432706321,"sku":"CIN0312366590A","price":5.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347459772689,"sku":"CIN0312366590G","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50567446855953,"sku":"GOR005929762","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326836113681,"sku":"CIN0312366590VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312366590.jpg?v=1750877286","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/victorian-london-book-liza-picard-9780312366599","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}