![]() ![]() Readers will not look again at historical portraits of Londoners without shuddering at what most history books conceal. The Ladies Dispensary, or Every Woman Her Own PhysicianĪnd Boswell's frank journals. Her sources include travelers' accounts, local diarists, the Gentleman's Magazine, ![]() She also features the gray fogs, rank smells, black filth, grinding poverty, nearly nonexistent hygiene (among all classes) and rampant disease. Her zoom lens focuses on living and working conditions of both rich and poor, health and welfare systems (such as they were), crime and punishment, pleasures, cuisine, fads and fashions, manners and customs. Picard delivers an encyclopedic distillation of mid-18th-century daily life in Europe's largest, most dynamic city-i.e., she conveys what it was like to be Sam Johnson's neighbor. ![]() In a follow-up to her Restoration London, ![]()
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