London in the Nineteenth Century
“A brilliant account of the bursting, overflowing city, with its glittering wealth and harrowing poverty.”
Financial Times (London)
London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Charles Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was '“a Human awful wonder of God.”
In Jerry White's dazzling history, we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
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