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This Victorian Life - Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture Cooking Fashion and Technology

Sarah A. Chrisman

Narrator Laural Merlington

Publisher: Tantor Audio

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Summary

We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century.In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.
Duration: about 12 hours (11:37:43)
Publishing date: 2015-11-24; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2015. Copyright Statment: —