How To Be a Victorian

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What was it really like to be a Victorian?

In this book, Ruth Goodman, historian and star of the BBC's Victorian Farm discovers what it was actually like to wear a corset, cook with coal, clean with tea leaves, feed opium to the baby and dozens of other everyday activities for your average Victorian family. From morning to night, kitchen to textile mill, How to be a Victorian uncovers the truth about nineteenth century life.

'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

'A delightful read. A triumph.' Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City

'Shocking, exciting, wonderful.' Clive Anderson, BBC Radio 4

'Beetonian, compendious.' Guardian

'Highly readable, often amusing, sometimes shocking. Popular history at its best.' BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine