Ruth Goodman
Ruth Goodman is a historian of British social and domestic life. She has advised the Royal Shakespeare Company's Globe Theatre and presented a number of BBC television series, including Victorian Farm. She lives in England.
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Ruth Goodman is a historian of British social and domestic life. She has advised the Royal Shakespeare Company's Globe Theatre and presented a number of BBC television series, including Victorian Farm. She lives in England.
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Interesting and informative, but not as good as Goodman's Tudor book. I'm not sure why, exactly. It may be because this was written first or because I've read more about the Victorian era so less was new. Goodman mostly sticks to the facts, but she relates some of her personal experience too. Don'...
How to be a Victorian, like Ruth Goodman's How to be a Tudor, which I read in January, is a fine study of a foreign country - in this case the Britain of roughly 150 years ago. It is filled with strange, often horrifying or amusing details. For example, that genteel ladies might want to take exerc...
How to be a Tudor is exactly what it is labeled as - a "dawn to dusk guide" to the Tudor era. It covers some of the same ground as Ian Mortimer's Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, but discusses much that book does not, and covers a wider timespan, from 1485 to the start of the 17th cent...
Excellent look at victorian life from rising in the morning to going to bed with a lot of citations.
All in all an enjoyable read that offered insights into the lives of the people from the Tudor era. I did find some descriptions of tasks to be a bit hard to follow, but that didn't take too much away from my enjoyment of the book as a whole.
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