The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

By Judith Flanders

Categories: History

Historian Judith Flanders describes daily life in London during the age of Charles Dickens, when the city grew into the largest in the world. She covers streets, transport, markets, work, food, entertainment, crime, poverty and death, drawing on Dickens's writings and other sources. Flanders shows a vivid, crowded city where old ways met new technologies and attitudes. Her portrait is rich in vivid detail.

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• Shane Parrish: “Fascinating. Some things you expect, like the attitudes towards women and the working poor. Other things are surprising, like how it was cheaper to eat on the road than at home, and the home was often a rented bed in a room shared with half a dozen strangers.”