by Liza Picard (Author)
Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. 'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 15 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0753801663
ISBN 13: 9780753801666
Book Overview: Describes one of the most exciting and memorable decades (the Great Fire and Plague) in London's history Will appeal to the layman as much as the historian High profile serialisation in the Daily Telegraph on hardback publication Paperback has already been reprinted three times 'This is a joy of a book. Its style is both simple and evocative...And it radiates throughout that quality so essential in a good historian: infinite curiosity' Roy Porter, Observer 'A pot pourri of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the predictable and the astonishing' Literary Review