The Victorian City
Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by Judith Flanders
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appears in About London, History, and Nonfiction.
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology,railways, streetlighting, and sewerstransformed both the city and the experience of cityliving.From the moment Charles ...
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