Daily Life in Victorian England, Second Edition (Daily Life Through History Series) / Edition 2

by Sally Mitchell

Overview

What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Victorian daily living, including women's roles; Victorian Morality; leisure; health and medicine; and life in all settings, from workhouses to country estates. This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the details of Victorian culture. This volume is an ideal source for students and teachers alike.

Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. Engaging narrative chapters explore all aspects of the Victorian experience, including: fashion, morality, courtship and mourbaning rituals, crime and punishment, public school requirements, legal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, guardians, and bankruptcy), sports like croquet and foxhunting, and the importance of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313350344
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2008
Series:	Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Edition description:	Second
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

SALLY MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She has published extensively on Great Britain, the Victorian era, and women's issues, including Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), which was named an ALA Outstanding Reference Work. Her most recent work, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Jourbanalist, Reformer, was published in 2004.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology
Introduction: The Victorians and Their World
1. A Brief History of Victorian England
2. The Foundations of Daily Life: Class, Tradition, and Money
3. Working Life
4. Technology, Science, and the Urban World
5. Official Life: Government and the Law
6. Private Life: House, Food, and Clothes
7. Family and Social Rituals
8. Education
9. Health and Medicine
10. Leisure and Pleasure: Holidays, Sports, and Recreation
11. Faith and Works: Religion and Reform
12. Victorian Morality
13. England and Empire
Appendix: Victorian Research and Resources
Glossary
Further Reading

Editorial Reviews

The meat of the book remains excellent. Mitchell is comprehensive, providing a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to historians and readers of nineteenth-century literature alike.” —Catholic Library World

From the Publisher

Describes daily life for rural and urban dwellers and upper and working classes in Victorian England, with chapters on working life, technology, family, education, health and medicine, leisure, religion, morals, and politics, focusing on children, women both a work and at home, and ordinary people. Includes a chronology, and b&w photos and illustrations. For students and general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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