Liza Picard

Victorian London

The Life of a City 1840-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.

Produktdetails

• Life of London
• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780753820902
• ISBN-10: 0753820900
• Artikelnr.: 21394157

Autorenporträt

Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. She read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, but did not practise. She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue before retiring to become a full-time author. She lives in London.