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Invention of Murder (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

'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

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The Victorian City (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens's London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange. Even if you've read Dickens and the contemporary historians of the poor, there is still more to marvel at here.' Sebastian [...]

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Victorian City (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

From the bestselling popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of Britain's - and the world's - greatest novelists: Charles Dickens.

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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Life in Victorian England (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.

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Consuming Passions (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

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'.

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A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

The MacDonald sisters started life in the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet, as wives and mothers, they connected a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister, and the uncrowned [...]

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The Invention of Murder (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

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A Circle of Sisters (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

The author chronicles the lives and discusses the literary works of the Macdonald sisters. Each of these extraordinary women were either married to or mothers of an eminent male figure in the arts or politics. The fluidity of Victorian society is portrayed through these [...]

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The Victorian House : Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

The social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th century men and women.

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The Victorian House (Book)

J. Flanders (Author), Judith Flanders (Author)

Takes readers through daily life in a Victorian house on a room-by-room basis, providing descriptions of each area's furnishings and decorations while recounting events that may have transpired in the rooms of the house.

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Consuming Passions (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

By the close of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways, mines and machines but also brought fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure. This book explores this revolution in science, technology and industry - and how a world [...]

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The Victorian House (Book)

Judith Flanders (Author)

Klappentext. From the author of "A Circle Of Sisters". A social history of Victorian domestic life told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th century men and women. Will appeal to viewers of the successful TV series; "1900 House" and "Edwardian House". [...]

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