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The victorian city by judith flanders5/20/2023 No one who reads it will view London in the same light again. For the past few days Ive occasionally been leaving my quiet. The Victorian City is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens London, Judith Flanders. Now, Judith Flanders follows in his footsteps, leading us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces, and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London. Charles Dickens obsessively walked London's streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting, and new buildings at every turn. The Wall Street Journal Flanders uses secondary historical sources alongside Dickens's own impressions of the city to take us on a dazzling journey through an imperial city plagued by poverty and deeply divided by class. 1810 : The Berners Street Hoax Early to rise On the road Travelling (mostly) hopefully. The Victorian City is the perfect companion to Dickens's work. The 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. Available in National Library (Singapore). From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles Dickens
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