How to be a Victorian

Highly readable, often amusing and sometimes shocking, this is popular history at its best * BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine * Beetonian, compendious * Guardian * Goodman's enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for misty-eyed interpretations of it * Telegraph * Ruth - a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could probably can the overflow to sell on the side * Independent * I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing ... there's scarcely a detail of Victorian life Ruth has not tried -- A N Wilson * Mail on Sunday * Shocking, exciting, wonderful -- Clive Anderson * BBC Radio 4 * A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph -- Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life -- Dr Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Shocking, exciting, wonderful -- Clive Anderson * BBC Radio 4 * A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived from day to day. A triumph -- Judith Flanders, author of 'The Victorian City' Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along . . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life -- Dr Ian Mortimer, author of 'The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England'