Mid-Georgian Britain, 1740-69
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Mid-Georgian Britain, 1740-69
Classmark: Bedford Collection C006
Creator(s): Riding, Jacqueline
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Shire
Publication city: Oxford; Long Island City, N.Y
Date(s): 2010
Language: English
Size and medium: 80 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731854
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019948696605181
Description
Includes index.
Introduction: London and life -- Love and sex, marriage and family -- Home and neighbourhood -- Work -- Food and drink -- Fashion -- Transport -- Relaxation and entertainment -- Charity and citizenship -- Health -- Places to visit.
"Mid-Georgian Britain was a period of both elegance and desperation. As the middle and upper classes enjoyed their wealth with an increasing range of consumer goods, the poor endured debtor's prison and an increasing number of crimes with the death penalty. This, the latest addition to the growing Living Histories series, charts the growth of the empire and looks at the growing importance of London as a capital city where the rich and poor rubbed shoulders. Jacqueline Riding creates a vivid portrait of the daily reality of life for a middle-class family in this age of growing affluence."--Publisher's description.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C006: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HL/167.
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