Daily life in Johnson's London

By Richard B. Schwartz

Subjects: Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, English Authors, Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, London (england), description and travel, London (england), social life and customs, Early works to 1800, Social life and customs, Description and travel

Description: Drawing on a wide range of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship, Schwartz captures the very texture of the vanished world of eighteenth-century London--from fops to cock-fights, from the pleasures and the domestic life of squires, tradesmen, and artists to the violence and filth of the brothels, the hospitals, and the prisons.