Title
- Doctor Johnson’s London
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Liza PicardPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edSt. Martin’s Press2001Availability
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With philanthropic help, new teaching hospitals were established, but the advance of medical theory hardly affected the treatment of patients, which was often bizarre.Executions were rated one of the best amusements, but there was bullock-hunting and cock-fighting too.There was also the lottery, the craze for which among the poor was as disastrous as gin.Crime, from pickpockets to highwaymen, was rife, prisons were poisonous and law-enforcement rudimentary, although it began to improve with the appointment in 1749 of Henry Fielding and later his blind brother John as magistrates in Westminster.This book spans the period 1740 to 1770 - very much the city of Dr. Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755.It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends when the east coast of America was still British.While brilliantly recording the strangeness and individuality of the past, Dr. Johnson’s London continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.AUTHORBIO: Liza Picard was born in Essex in 1927, the youngest daughter of the village doctor.She read law at the London School of Economics but chose not to practice despite qualifying as a barrister.Her first book, Restoration London, was published by St. Martin’s in 1998. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Notes
- Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000
- "The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our eighteenth- century ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and newspapers, government papers and reports, advice books and memoirs (including those of foreign visitors such as Casanova) - to examine the substance of life in mid- eighteenth century London: houses, gardens, transport, and traffic; occupations and work, pleasure and amusements; health, medicine, and hospitals; sex and food, clothes and fashion; education, manners, and etiquette; crime and punishment."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Pt. 1. The Place. Ch. 1. Facts and Figures. Ch. 2. London and Westminster. Ch. 3. Water. Ch. 4. Traffic. Ch. 5. Green Spaces. Ch. 6. The Buildings
- Pt. 2. The Poor. Ch. 7. Massie’s Analysis. Ch. 8. The Welfare System. Ch. 9. Living Conditions. Ch. 10. Philanthropy. Ch. 11. The Sick Poor. Ch. 12. Work. Ch. 13. Slaves, Servants and Domestic Work. Ch. 14. Amusements. Ch. 15. Crime and Punishment
- Pt. 3. The Middling Sort. Ch. 16. Dentistry, Health and Medical Care. Ch. 17. Childhood, Schooling and Religion. Ch. 18. A Woman’s World. Ch. 19. The Middling Rank of Men. Ch. 20. Fashion and Beauty. Ch. 21. Interiors and Gardens. Ch. 22. Parties of Pleasure. Ch. 23. Manners, Speech, Conversation and Customs
- Pt. 4. The Rich. Ch. 24. High Society. Ch. 25. The King
- App. Cost of Living, Currency and Prices
ISBN
- 0312276656
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