# Victorian London

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- Book: [Victorian London](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-picard/victorian-london) ([Victorian London.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-picard/victorian-london.md))
- Authors: [Liza Picard](https://www.bookquiver.com/liza-picard), [Anton Lesser](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-lesser)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-07-5288-472-1
- Published: 2006-04-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria'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, e. g. Peter Jones, 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. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan. Read by Anton Lesser (p) 2005 Orion Publishing Group