And above the whole would hang a dense cloud of smog that varied disturbingly in color from brown to green Londoners, with affectionate disgust, called the most polluted days 'pea-soupers. THE VICTORIAN CITY is a meticulously researched and very detailed book about London life during the time Charles Dickens walked its streets. The traffic-human, animal and industrial-on its granite and macadamized roads let out an unremitting roar its docks and great river were perpetually thronged with ships and steamers its overland railways and underground trains went rattling off in myriad directions.

No other city in Europe rivaled it for size or enterprise. In the space of a century, London's population rose from one million to nearly seven million. From the bestselling popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated.

Flanders is a beguiling guide, drawing on Dickens's writings to create an irresistible portrait of the English capital at a time of unprecedented expansion. Flanders rightly hails as 'the greatest recorder the London streets has ever known'-chronicled in his novels and journalism was merely life as most people then lived it. Judith Flanders's erudite and vivid look at 19th-century London is a reminder that what Charles Dickens-an unflinching observer of urban wretchedness, whom Ms. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively. OL17069310W Page_number_confidence 93.12 Pages 566 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200825165137 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 835 Scandate 20200821131533 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781848877979 Tts_version 4.Today the word 'Dickensian,' when used to describe social conditions, denotes extreme squalor.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:09:11 Boxid IA1914821 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and.

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