What Do I Read Next?
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (1860–1861) chronicles the maturation of Pip, an orphan confronting the tough realities of life in Victorian England. This novel is available from Random House (2006).
Jonathan Swift's “A Modest Proposal” (1729) stands out as a striking form of social protest, proposing the shocking idea that babies should be eaten to address the famine in Ireland. This essay, along with other short works by Swift, can be found in A Modest Proposal and Other Prose, published by Barnes and Noble (2004).
Daniel Pool’s What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist, the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England (1993) explores the public and private realms of the Victorians, delving into their customs, rituals, occupations, and living conditions.
Sally Mitchell’s Daily Life in Victorian England (1996) examines various lifestyles during this era, ranging from the rural gentry to urban slum inhabitants.
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