How to be a Victorian

Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along … Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life – Dr Ian Mortimer, author of ‘The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England’A delightful read … allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph – Judith Flanders, author of ‘The Victorian City’Shocking, exciting, wonderful – Clive Anderson * BBC Radio 4 *Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along … Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life – Dr Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval EnglandA delightful read … allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph – Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian CityShocking, exciting, wonderful – Clive Anderson * BBC Radio 4 *I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing … there’s scarcely a detail of Victorian life Ruth has not tried – A N Wilson * Mail on Sunday *Ruth - a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could probably can the overflow to sell on the side * Independent *Goodman’s enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for misty-eyed interpretations of it * Telegraph *Beetonian, compendious * Guardian *

Ruth Goodman is a historian who specializes in the everyday life of the past. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series and is a regular presenter on the One Show. She is the author of How to be a Victorian, and has co-authored three other books, including the Number One Bestseller Victorian Farm.

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