SALLY MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She has published extensively on Great Britain, the Victorian era, and women's issues, including Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), which was named an ALA Outstanding Reference Work. Her most recent work, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, was published in 2004.

• PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: The Victorians and Their World1. A Brief History of Victorian England2. The Foundations of Daily Life: Class, Tradition, and Money3. Working Life4. Technology, Science, and the Urban World5. Official Life: Government and the Law6. Private Life: House, Food, and Clothes7. Family and Social Rituals8. Education9. Health and Medicine10. Leisure and Pleasure: Holidays, Sports, and Recreation11. Faith and Works: Religion and Reform12. Victorian Morality13. England and EmpireAppendix: Victorian Research and ResourcesGlossaryFurther Reading

The meat of the book remains excellent. Mitchell is comprehensive, providing a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to historians and readers of nineteenth-century literature alike.

SALLY MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She has published extensively on Great Britain, the Victorian era, and women's issues, including Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), which was named an ALA Outstanding Reference Work. Her most recent work, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, was published in 2004.

• PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: The Victorians and Their World1. A Brief History of Victorian England2. The Foundations of Daily Life: Class, Tradition, and Money3. Working Life4. Technology, Science, and the Urban World5. Official Life: Government and the Law6. Private Life: House, Food, and Clothes7. Family and Social Rituals8. Education9. Health and Medicine10. Leisure and Pleasure: Holidays, Sports, and Recreation11. Faith and Works: Religion and Reform12. Victorian Morality13. England and EmpireAppendix: Victorian Research and ResourcesGlossaryFurther Reading

The meat of the book remains excellent. Mitchell is comprehensive, providing a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to historians and readers of nineteenth-century literature alike.

SALLY MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She has published extensively on Great Britain, the Victorian era, and women's issues, including Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), which was named an ALA Outstanding Reference Work. Her most recent work, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, was published in 2004.

• PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: The Victorians and Their World1. A Brief History of Victorian England2. The Foundations of Daily Life: Class, Tradition, and Money3. Working Life4. Technology, Science, and the Urban World5. Official Life: Government and the Law6. Private Life: House, Food, and Clothes7. Family and Social Rituals8. Education9. Health and Medicine10. Leisure and Pleasure: Holidays, Sports, and Recreation11. Faith and Works: Religion and Reform12. Victorian Morality13. England and EmpireAppendix: Victorian Research and ResourcesGlossaryFurther Reading

The meat of the book remains excellent. Mitchell is comprehensive, providing a tremendous amount of information that will be useful to historians and readers of nineteenth-century literature alike.