by VikramSeth (Author)
Making use of every possible contemporary source-diaries, memoirs, advice books,government papers, almanacs, even the register of Patents - Liza Picard presentsan entralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the decade between 1660 and 1670: 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 andpopular beliefs. The London of 300 years ago is brought wonderfully (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 25 Mar 1993
ISBN 10: 1897580207
ISBN 13: 9781897580202
Book Overview: * Describes one of the most exciting and memorable decades (the Great Fire and Plague) in Londons history * Will appeal to all those interested in non-academic social history, e.g. Lark Rise to Candleford, Rowland Parks The Common Stream, visiters to national Trust kitchens and stables, etc
Prizes: Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1994 and The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1994 and WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1994. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.