This book was fascinating. Ruth Goodman set out to explain what life was like for the Victorians, starting from when they got up in the morning until they went to bed at night. There are chapters on getting dressed, using the privy, personal grooming, exercise, meals, school, work, and even sex. Hysteria was a common diagnosis for a range of symptoms. Later, at the beginning of the twentieth century, these symptoms would be referred to as ‘nervous complaints’; in the 1930s and 1940s, they would come together to be known as a ‘mental breakdown’; and in the twenty-first century, they would likely be termed ‘depression’." a b c Cook, Bernard A. (2011). "Poverty". In Mitchell, Sally (ed.). Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.622–625. ISBN 9780415669726. Coleridge's Religion". victorianweb.org. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023 . Retrieved 10 August 2022. Ranlett, John (2011). "Railways". In Mitchell, Sally (ed.). Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.663–665. ISBN 9780415669726.

I will warn readers that this book is dense with historical details, and it took me a while to get through it. I learned a lot and thought it was interesting, but it was a slow read.Taylor, A. J. P. (1954). The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848–1918. Mumbai: Oxford University Press. pp.60–61. a b c Swisher, Clarice (2000). Victorian England. Greenhaven Press. pp.248–250. ISBN 9780737702217. Ruth Goodman is amazing. I will read or watch anything that she appears in. I've been a fan since I watched her wonderful, in-depth documentary of her living on a makeshift Victorian farm, along with a couple of other presenters. She lived like a Victorian would, and she went to great lengths to show her viewers a peek of what life may have been like. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson. Scheuerle H., William (2011). "Amusements and Recreation: Middle class". In Mitchell, Sally (ed.). Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.17–19. ISBN 9780415669726.

At the start of the Victorian period, very few children went to school. Wealthy children were often taught at home by a governess and wealthy boys were sometimes sent to public school when they were ten. Girls from these families stayed at home and were taught skills such as cooking, sewing and how to play musical instruments. Drawing on Ruth's unique first-hand experience, gained from living on a Victorian farm for a year, this book will teach you everything you need to know about 19th century living.Baigrie, Brian (2007). "Chapter 10: Electromagnetic Waves". Electricity and Magnetism: A Historical Perspective. United States of America: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33358-3.

Goodman, Ruth (2013). "Chapter 15: Behind the bedroom door". How to be a Victorian. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-241-95834-6. Many people still held to the ancient belief that a woman’s sexuality was latent in girlhood and only ‘awakened’ on her wedding night by her husband. From that moment onwards, her sexual appetite was thought to be lascivious, and greater than that of men. It was in need of firm male control, and it was up to husbands to ensure the carnal discipline of their wife. " Petra XCecily wrote: "She actually used the phrase "down there", rather than say cervix, vagina, labia, or whatever. Bizarre..." Llanfyllin and district – The Union Workhouse – A Victorian prison for the poor". Victorian Powys. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023 . Retrieved 30 May 2023.

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Baker, William J. (1983). The state of British sport history. Vol.10. Journal of Sport History. pp.53–66. a b c Robinson, Bruce (17 February 2011). "Victorian Medicine – From Fluke to Theory". BBC History. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 13 October 2020. McMullan, M. B. (1 May 1998). "The Day the Dogs Died in London". The London Journal. 23 (1): 32–40. doi: 10.1179/ldn.1998.23.1.32. ISSN 0305-8034. Archived from the original on 4 June 2021 . Retrieved 31 March 2023.

a b Hobsbawn, Eric (1995). "Chapter Nine: The Golden Years". The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. Abacus. ISBN 9780349106717. Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, as the song goes. It was especially hard to be a Victorian woman. We think we know, and we certainly do – on many levels – understand the hardships that people underwent on a daily basis, from morning until night. But is this awareness not just one of academic, historic facts? Do we really appreciate or empathise with what our Victorian forbears endured? a b c Wohl, Anthony S. (1978). The Victorian family: structure and stresses. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 9780856644382.

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Katz, Victor (2009). "21.3: Symbolic Algebra". A History of Mathematics: An Introduction. Addison-Wesley. pp.738–9. ISBN 978-0-321-38700-4. We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and wash laundry while wearing a corset? Most of the book is. It is very low key, but the author is even better than Liza Picard at giving the details so necessary to imagine what it is was liv..." To both my pleasure and discomfort, I have had much experience of Victorian laundry in my career and can vouch for just how much hard work it is. A day thus spent is exhausting, and it is no surprise that so many women from the period mentioned in their diaries tempers fraying on wash day. . . In my own encounters, I did not mind the steam that filled the kitchen like a fog, but the constant change of temperature, from working inside with the hot pans to being outside in the cold moving water around, was almost unbearable. I hate that sort of coy evasion. I had an appointment with my GP recently. I'd guess she is mid/late 50s (slightly older than me), and the consultation was about contraception and menopause. She actually used the phrase "down there", rather than say cervix, vagina, labia, or whatever. Bizarre.