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From Publishers Weekly
In a follow-up to her Restoration London， Picard delivers an encyclopedic distillation of mid-18th-century daily life in Europe’s largest， most dynamic city i.e.， she conveys what it was like to be Sam Johnson’s neighbor. Her zoom lens focuses on living and working conditions of both rich and poor， health and welfare systems (such as they were)， crime and punishment， pleasures， cuisine， fads and fashions， manners and customs. She also features the gray fogs， rank smells， black filth， grinding poverty， nearly nonexistent hygiene (among all classes) and rampant disease. Her sources include travelers’ accounts， local diarists， the Gentleman’s Magazine， the Ladies Dispensary， or Every Woman Her Own Physician and Boswell’s frank journals. Readers will not look again at historical portraits of Londoners without shuddering at what most history books conceal. Much of Picard’s jocularity succeeds， as when she considers prices: ’enough gin to get drunk on’ cost a penny， ’enough gin to get dead drunk on’ cost tuppence; two-and-a-half shillings slightly more than a journeyman tailor’s daily pay could get a tooth extracted or buy a chicken; a shilling and a pint of cheap wine afforded one a prostitute. This pleasingly plotless book offers fascinating snapshots of the appealing and the repellant in a particular time and place. 32 pages of color and b&w photos not seen by PW. (July)Forecast: The audience for this may be less specialized than it would seem， as film-goers and readers of period novels will find this chatty book an intriguing contrast to romantic depictions. It may also get a boost from a minor Johnson/Boswell revival， including the publication late last year of Peter Martin’s A Life of James Boswell and Adam Sisman’s forthcoming Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information， Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Book Description
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 ancestors， Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals， almanacs and newspapers， government papers and reports， advice books and memoirs - to examine the substance of life in mid-18th century London. The fascinating result of her research， Dr. Johnson’s London introduces the reader to every facet of that period: from houses and gardens to transport and traffic; from occupations and work to pleasure and amusements; from health and medicine to sex， food， and fashion. Stops along the way focus on education， etiquette， public executions as popular entertainment， and a melange of other historical curiosities.
This book spans the period from 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 just before America ceased being a colony. In its enthralling review of an exhilarating era， Dr. Johnson’s London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.
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