And why do I feel like I've used that subject title before?
SO. NaNo. I'm going full steam ahead on that this year after taking last year off. I have my sights set awfully high and have been bothering most anyone who will listen to me about my big idea for it. I must say that
dragonlit,
kimboosan,
filthgoblin and
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1. Can you narrow down the location?
2. The time frame, since Victorian era covers decades and things changed in that time? (to help with this, think of what inventions you need to exist or if you have anything in mind that is time sensitive)
3. What kind of people are you interested in? (poor, rich, in-between, workers and what kind, etc.)
4. What kind of resources will be most helpful to you? What are you looking to be able to do?
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2. I am thinking latter half, but again, still working on exacts, nothing I have going on so far is incredibly time sensitive.
3. Rich, aristocratic, poor, in-between, and house help.
4. At this point I am looking for general information on daily life and situations. I am also looking for info on dealing with death, particularly in an important or aristocratic family, like if the only surviving heir was a son, what sort of role would he be required/expected to take on.
Thank you for putting on your librarian hat!
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Domestic history:
Pleasure Wars, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
Peter Gay (search him b/c he has done lots on the era, esp writing about the people)
Pleasures & Pastimes in Victorian Britain
Pamela Horn
Inside the Victorian Home: A portrait of domestic life in Victorian England
Judith Flanders
Fiction:
The Great Stink
Clare Clark
Arthur & George
Julian Barnes
Mr. Timothy
Louis Bayard
Contemporary Authors:
Dickens is great for the details
Wilkie Collins
Robert Louis Stevenson
General History:
Disraeli: The Victorian dandy who became Prime Minister
Christopher Hibbert
Nineteenth-Century Britain--a very short introduction
Christopher Harvie and H.C.G. Matthew
Building Jerusalem: the rise and fall of the victorian city
Tristram Hunt
Victorian London: the life of a city 1840-1870
Other:
The English Year: a month by month guide to the nation's customs and festivals from May Day to Mischief Night
Steve Roud
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Thank you, thank you!
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