Daily
Life in Johnson’s London
Richard B. Schwartz
“A rich, fascinating, enlightening if sometimes slightly
terrifying tableau of real life in one of the world’s most celebrated
cities.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Rich in facts and anecdotes, this is the perfect introduction
to 18th-century London and a wonderful companion for readers
of Johnson and Boswell. . . . Schwartz starts with the sights,
sound, and smells of the metropolis—a city of steeples,
chimneys, coal smoke, and intolerable street noise—and surveys
in succession Work and Money, Pastimes and Pleasures, Daily Routines
and Domestic Life, Travel and Transportation, and Health and
Hygiene and concludes with a gallery of street ‘Londoners,’ an
independent and assertive lot, notably insolent to foreigners,
especially those in French clothes.”
—Washington
Post Book World
“Outstanding. . . . The author packs
a remarkable quantity of detail into a small space, even including
a discussion of price and wage figures that will be intelligible
to Americans [today]. . . . His prose is lucid, graceful, lively.
Generously illustrated, the book also includes an extensive bibliography.”
—Choice
“An excellent source for English Literature
and history students studying this period or Samuel Johnson.”
—Booklist
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LC: 83-050080 DA
218 pp. 6 x 8 76 illus.
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