{"product_id":"9780007548385","title":"Victorians Undone : Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hughes, Kathryn \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/01\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 432 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007548385,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Who 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\u003cp\u003e What 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\u003cp\u003e How 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\u003cp\u003e Kathryn 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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697981685804,"sku":"9780007548385","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007548385.jpg?v=1722610185","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007548385","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}