- Published: 27 June 2013
- ISBN: 9780241958346
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
How to be a Victorian
- Published: 27 June 2013
- ISBN: 9780241958346
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
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
A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph
Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City
Beetonian, compendious
Guardian
Goodman's enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for misty-eyed interpretations of it
Telegraph
Highly readable, often amusing and sometimes shocking, this is popular history at its best
BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine
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
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 England