ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju

Publication Year 1976
Format Paperback
Language English
Item Height 198mm
Item Width 129mm
Number of Pages 464 Pages

The Industrial Revolution, it has been said, `was like a storm that passed over London and broke elsewhere`. Whatever happened in other parts, it is clear that in the capital social conditions gradually improved. Between Defoe and Wordsworth, as it were, London progressed from gin and brutality to tea and temperance.

On this period of London`s development Dorothy George`s exhaustive study is now a standard work,` as balanced in its judgements as it is comprehensive in its sources. The observations of such well-known figures as Johnson, Wesley, and Place, of Henry Fielding and his half-brother John, who were so intimately involved with London`s poor, are filled out here with evidence from contemporary reports and newspapers, sessions papers and county records, pamphlets and memoirs by foreign travellers.

Certainly no more complete survey has ever been made of the place and the period in which the idea of progress began to become a reality.

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After a late-Victorian childhood in London, Dorothy George (nie Gordon) was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews, and Girton College, Cambridge (First Class Historical Tripos; Litt.D. Cantab.). She married the painter Eric George and lives in Chelsea. At the London School of Economics she contracted a passion for historical research. This she indulged for many years in her work for the British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires (caricatures) begun by F. G. Stephens, the Pre-Raphaelite. She has published a number of historical books including England in Transition (available as a Pelican), and is an Honorary Fellow of Girton College.