Books by Judith Flanders
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review 1: I don't think I've ever used the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover" in the negative sense, but it's the most apt evaluation I can give of this meandering, detail-heavy (in a disruptive way) tome that is less about murder than it is about the evolution of Victorian culture....
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review 1: Though incredibly thoroughly researched and meticulously detailed - and incredibly helpful for the purposes of which I bought it - it's a bit of a slog to get through, particularly the sections where Flanders feels the need to labourously describe the plot of some penny-dreadful ...
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review 1: I will repeat here something I have told many acquantainces. I am exceedingly happy that I was born after 1950. I couldn't cut it any further back in time. Though the upper and middle classes in Victorian England had better table manners than moderns I would argue that they were ...