Everything you need to know about life in Victorian Britain, especially focusing on the middle- class, professional people who lived in small houses in industrial cities, as the large country house we see in movies was a fantasy for most. Despite living in the most technologically advanced and most prosperous country on earth at the time, many middle-class people still carried chamber pots up and down stairs, buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold, wrung sheets in boiling water with their bare hands, hauled coal up and down stairs, and battled the dirt and dust of a life powered by coal. The book is mostly organized by moving from room to room. A treasure based on contemporary sources, with wonderful illustrations, to take you into a world barely recognizable to us 21st-century people. Very good, almost like new. W. W. Norton &  Company. 2004. USED. $55.00