Book discussion: MORE Black Ribbon research

[cleolinda]

MOAR BOOKS.

Not that you should trust any reviewer who uses the word "moar," but still.

Comments

[cleolinda]

And then people tell me about things and MINE gets bigger! It's awful, I tell you.

[lissa_quon]

Hm, I might have to check the The Victorian Underworld it sounds like an interesting read.

Not sure how interested you are in visual aids (for me as an artist they are essential) but you might find Victorian London Street Life in Historical Photographs an interesting read.

It was originally written and assembled in 1877 and consists of many photographs of various street people, boot blacks, cab men, beggars, dustmen etc. The writings tend to tell the life story of the people, how much money they can hope to make, what odd road their life took to end up begging in a door way, or black boots etc.

[athousanderrors]

You have no idea how invaluable this is for my probably-never-going-to-be-written-oh-god graphic novel. \o/

[melchar]

Thanks for that! I have just ordered a copy [albeit from half.com]

[venetia_sassy]

Agh, this isn't even the time period I'm trying to focus on (Late Georgian/Regency) but I still want All The Books! Plus the Judith Flanders book. No, no, no, focus.

P.S. But if you happen to have any recs for that period ...