In this six-part course, discover everything you need to know about Victorian Britain, guided by historian Ruth Goodman and filmed on location at Black Country Living Museum.
Wall Street Journal: Book Review: ‘How to Be a Victorian” by Ruth Goodman
Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...
"How To Be Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide To Victorian Life" by Ruth Goodman; Liveright Publishing Co./Norton (464 pages, $29.95) Ruth Goodman is a rare person. The British historian didn't just ...
I have been reading, of late, a book by Ruth Goodman called “How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life.” I don’t think of myself as much of a reader of histories, but this one has ...
Remember that old saying about not knowing a person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes? Author Ruth Goodman has done that and then some. She’s walked in the shoes, corsets, dresses and nightgowns ...
British social historian Goodman reveals what life was like in the Victorian era in a manner most readers have likely never encountered before: by personally subscribing to Victorian mores and way of ...
If the past is foreign country because they do things differently there, we’re lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman. An expert in Renaissance customs (she was an adviser on the ...
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Author covers cold, hard truths of Victorian life