Waller (senior fiction editor at Book Club Associates in London) weaves accounts from newspapers and diaries with court records and popular literature to profile the teeming,... more
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almost a glut of the kind of daily life (and death) detail which proves utterly engaging, striking chords of familiarity or describing almost unimaginable worlds...
almost a glut of the kind of daily life (and death) detail which proves utterly engaging, striking chords of familiarity or describing almost unimaginable worlds...
Advantages: You can walk from the Tube. Disadvantages: CHeck opening times.
Lord Leighton's House in London in the middle of the hubub is a refreshingly cool and exotic place to visit. It is amazing as you walk through the door seeing the fofufntain and the jewelled tiling which has an arabic flavour. Going upstairs you find the art works which the group of artists who lived around there produced during Victorian times. Some of them are displayed in a way which suggests that people might still be in residence. It is a really ...
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Waller (senior fiction editor at Book Club Associates in London) weaves accounts from newspapers and diaries with court records and popular literature to profile the teeming, sprawling London of 300 years ago. She shows how 1700 was a time when London was caught on the cusp of medievalism and future empire, and she investigates parallels to the cul
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