Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s - Softcover

Picard, Liza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842124676 ISBN 13: 9781842124673

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2001

Synopsis

Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. 'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent

About this title

About the Author:

Liza Picard was born in 1927. She read law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister, but did not practise. She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue and lived in Gray's Inn and Hackney, before retiring to live in Oxford. Restoration London, the result of many years' interest and research into London life, was her first book.

Review:

'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1842124676
• ISBN 13: 9781842124673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352