{"product_id":"victorians-undone","title":"Kathryn Hughes: Victorians Undone [2018] paperback","description":"'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWhy did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eExactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWho knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWhat did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eHow did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eKathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance - its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hughes, Kathryn","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47291604992339,"sku":"XV80007548385","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":46595982262611,"sku":"9780007548385","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hughes-kathryn-kathryn-hughes-victorians-undone-2018-paperback-58051568238931.jpg?v=1727088978","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/victorians-undone","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}