Brenda Assael was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Circus and Victorian Society (2005), and has published widely on the intersections between culture, society, commerce, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain.

A welcome addition to the literature on eating out in England. The London Restaurant, 1840–1914 fills a gap in our knowledge of an important socio-cultural institution of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and its many-faceted influence on the modern urban experience ... Assael's extraordinary research paints a picture of the restaurant as a complex business, as well as "a site for mapping both social identities and cultural exchange" (211).

Brenda Assael was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Circus and Victorian Society (2005), and has published widely on the intersections between culture, society, commerce, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain.

A welcome addition to the literature on eating out in England. The London Restaurant, 1840–1914 fills a gap in our knowledge of an important socio-cultural institution of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and its many-faceted influence on the modern urban experience ... Assael's extraordinary research paints a picture of the restaurant as a complex business, as well as "a site for mapping both social identities and cultural exchange" (211).

Brenda Assael was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Circus and Victorian Society (2005), and has published widely on the intersections between culture, society, commerce, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain.

A welcome addition to the literature on eating out in England. The London Restaurant, 1840–1914 fills a gap in our knowledge of an important socio-cultural institution of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and its many-faceted influence on the modern urban experience ... Assael's extraordinary research paints a picture of the restaurant as a complex business, as well as "a site for mapping both social identities and cultural exchange" (211).