Isabella
I'm doing a semester long project on 19th century daily living (mainly Victorian and Civil War Era), so I need some great study books to get some info. I'll need fashion/clothing, food, home, EVERYTHING. I basically need to dive into the time period and indirectly live it. I've googled the topic for some books but nothing really on point comes up. Any help or suggestions? THANKS!!
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Recommendations:
1) Farm to Factory: Women's Letters--this has real letters written by the Lowell girls, the women who left their homes to work in factories. The letters themselves have a lot of info about just daily life, what the women bought, what work was like, etc. I think you'll especially enjoy Mary Paul's letters. The guy who compiled them has wonderful introductions to each section of letters.
2) The Vile Victorians--this is in a series of British books called Horrible Histories; they're detailed, funny, and entertaining with a lot of cartoon illustrations and a lot of information.
3) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass--a great book in general, but also a goldmine of info about life in the South for a slave. Douglass had just about every possible experience a slave could have--he'd been in the deep south on a massive plantation, on a small farm, and in Baltimore as a craftsman. Additionally, his appeal to the North sheds a lot of light on the values of the day.
4) Little House on the Prairie-- seems silly, but the books in this series are from a primary source and are about the westward movement.
That's all I can think of offhand. I hope that's in any way helpful.
Recommendations:
1) Farm to Factory: Women's Letters--this has real letters written by the Lowell girls, the women who left their homes to work in factories. The letters themselves have a lot of info about just daily life, what the women bought, what work was like, etc. I think you'll especially enjoy Mary Paul's letters. The guy who compiled them has wonderful introductions to each section of letters.
2) The Vile Victorians--this is in a series of British books called Horrible Histories; they're detailed, funny, and entertaining with a lot of cartoon illustrations and a lot of information.
3) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass--a great book in general, but also a goldmine of info about life in the South for a slave. Douglass had just about every possible experience a slave could have--he'd been in the deep south on a massive plantation, on a small farm, and in Baltimore as a craftsman. Additionally, his appeal to the North sheds a lot of light on the values of the day.
4) Little House on the Prairie-- seems silly, but the books in this series are from a primary source and are about the westward movement.
That's all I can think of offhand. I hope that's in any way helpful.
Great expectations????
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please i would like to know a about the book "great expectations"(charles dickens) and if you would or wouldn't recommend it to me and why????
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"Great Expectations" is an excellent choice for just about anyone. One can't go far afield in choosing to read Dickens. In my opinion, he was probably the greatest author Great Britain produced during the 19th century. One of the things which made Dickens so great as an author was his choice to write about the common people and to focus on their problems, including their living conditions, in as realistic a way as possible. Consequently, many of his books come off sounding gloomy and depressive. But that's because those were the conditions that many of the English lower classes had to face during their everyday lives.
"Great Expectations" is an excellent choice for just about anyone. One can't go far afield in choosing to read Dickens. In my opinion, he was probably the greatest author Great Britain produced during the 19th century. One of the things which made Dickens so great as an author was his choice to write about the common people and to focus on their problems, including their living conditions, in as realistic a way as possible. Consequently, many of his books come off sounding gloomy and depressive. But that's because those were the conditions that many of the English lower classes had to face during their everyday lives.
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