Author: Pritchard, R. E. (ed. and intro. by), Title: DICKENS'S ENGLAND - Life in Victorian Times.
Description: The History Press, Stroud, 2009, paperback, [iv], 284pp, half tone ills. and line drawings in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), pictorial montage upper wrapper, a description of the life and social conditions of the English from 1837 when Victoria came to the throne until about 1870, a time of great commerce as a result of the industrial revolution, of great prosperity for a few whose investments were paying well but also of great poverty for many who were still locked into a hand-to-mouth industrial or pastoral existence, and of the emergence of a middle class who worked but who also had some time and money to spend on leisure pursuits, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,
Keywords: british history victoria dickens
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- Book number: 43021
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