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26 produkter
Victorian House
Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
Häftad, 2004
218 kr
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The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up …
Christmas
A History
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth.When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent …
Rites of Passage
Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
Häftad, 2025
170 kr
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'There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders’s latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The TelegraphIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith …
Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Häftad, 2011
155 kr
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‘We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.’ PunchMurder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous – transformed into …
Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Ljudbok, 2011
257 kr
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A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the …
The Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Häftad, 2014
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312 kr
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Shares accounts of high-profile murder cases that engaged Victorians in the 19th century, exploring how the rare crime of murder became a sensational cultural interest that gave rise to numerous theatrical and literary works. By the award-nominated author of A Circle of Sisters . 35,000 first …
Consuming Passions
Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
Häftad, 2007
189 kr
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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten …
Consuming Passions
Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
E-bok, 2009
120 kr
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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling `The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten …
Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era …
Victorian House
Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
E-bok, 2013
136 kr
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The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition.The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and …
Circle of Sisters
Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
E-bok, 2002
125 kr
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The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward …
Inside the Victorian Home
A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
Häftad, 2005
477 kr
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"[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin
Häftad, 2011
356 kr
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The Victorian City
Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Häftad, 2015
440 kr
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder , an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens's London.
Rites of Passage
Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
E-bok, 2024
205 kr
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'There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders’s latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The TelegraphIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith …
Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Inbunden, 2020
192 kr
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'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order of the alphabet, that …
Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Häftad, 2021
183 kr
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'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order …
Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
E-bok, 2020
198 kr
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'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order …
Christmas
A History
E-bok, 2018
199 kr
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Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth.When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent …
Victorian City
Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Häftad, 2013
180 kr
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The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. 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 …
Making of Home
The 500-year story of how our houses became homes
Häftad, 2015
171 kr
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The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens …
Cast of Vultures
Häftad, 2017
106 kr
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There was every possibility that I was dead, and my brain hadn't got the memo. Or maybe it was that I wished I were dead. On reflection, that was more likely.Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangover to end all hangovers. Before the …
Rites of Passage
Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
Inbunden, 2024
267 kr
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'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning PointIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre …
