Judith Flandersová se ve svých dílech zaměřuje na životy a prostředí lidí v minulosti, zejména ve viktoriánské Anglii. Své texty obohacuje o detailní historické rešerše a pronikavý pohled do každodenních zvyklostí a společenských norem. Přibližuje čtenářům fascinující svět minulých staletí s důrazem na neotřelé perspektivy a skryté motivace. Její práce vyniká schopností vtáhnout čtenáře do historie a představit jí v novém světle.
Publikacja pokazująca XIX-wieczną metropolię w okresie, kiedy jej ulicami spacerował Charles Dickens – uważny obserwator codzienności, którą skrupulatnie, ale z dystansem i humorem opisywał w swych powieściach. Judith Flanders – historyczka, dziennikarka i pisarka, autorka książek historycznych oraz powieści, zabiera czytelnika na spacer ulicami wiktoriańskiego Londynu w poszukiwaniu śladów Dickensa, scen, sytuacji i obrazów, które były dla niego inspiracją.
A middle class home, circa 1850, of the sort that many people live in today, is the focus of Judith Flanders' book. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.
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The Macdonald family embodies a unique blend of historical significance and relatable personal dynamics, reflecting the social mobility of their era. Their journey spans from Alice's birth during Queen Victoria's reign to their dispersal at the close of the Edwardian period, illustrating the interplay between family life and the broader societal changes of the time. This narrative captures both the exceptional moment in history they inhabited and the universal aspects of their relationships, making their story both a historical account and a mirror of contemporary life.
A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House.
The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.
From Judith Flanders, the bestselling popular historian, comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of Britain's - and the world's - greatest novelists, Charles Dickens.
Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangover to end all hangovers. Before the Nurofen has even kicked in, she finds herself entangled in an elaborate saga of missing neighbours, suspected arson and the odd unidentified body. When the grisly news breaks that the fire has claimed a victim, Sam is already in pursuit. Never has comedy been so deadly as Sam faces down a pair from Thugs "R" Us, aided by nothing more than a CID boyfriend, a stalwart Goth assistant and a seemingly endless supply of purple-sprouting broccoli.
The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House.
Detektivní román anglického klasika líčí osudy lidí, kteří přišli do styku s velkým žlutým diamantem, uloupeným z čela indického bůžka, zosobňujícího měsíc. Dramatické momenty jsou protkány známým anglickým suchým humorem, parodujícím společenskou přetvářku a mravy hrabivých kolonizátorů.
A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling `The Victorian House'.