The Victorian Times Collection - Vol. II

By Moira Allen

Victorian Times brings you the best of the Victorian world - amusing, inspiring, intriguing and informative articles from actual Victorian magazines This 6-month print collection offers nearly 150 Victorian articles, including: Eccentric Victorian inventions The Queen's pet dogs Life for the Victorian working woman Court cookery in ancient times Chronicles of a Britisher's ranch in California Beloved author E. Nesbit's school-days Victorian Valentines Victorian Easter Eggs (including the "world's largest Easter Egg") Month-by-month guide to country customs and folklore Victorian fashion do's and don'ts How to be a fashionable city "swell" The Queen's tobacco-pipe (what was it, really?) Historic cases of mistaken identity "Americanisms" - what exactly is a mugwump? Unusual animals, including an orchestra made up entirely of dogs, and an orangutan that was the toast of San Francisco Postmen of the Victorian world The diary of an 18th-century Boston schoolgirl ... Plus elegant illustrations and engravings, charming poetry, and much, much more "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514785064
• ISBN13: 9781514785065
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.6" x 8.5"