Besant looks back half a century to 1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne, and reconstructs how Britain lived. He walks the London streets, visits working people, the middle class and society, goes to the play and the show, sits in Parliament, inspects schools and universities and drops into the tavern, contrasting it all with the 1880s.
A lively social history by the novelist of All Sorts and Conditions of Men, ideal for readers of Dickens’s early London. Download the free EPUB.