I have had my copy of this CD for some time and can thoroughly recommend it, as Ann has said elsewhere, it is facinating if sometimes depressing reading.

It is certainly the other side of the picture, to that given by the pretty Victorian website, also discussed elsewhere. Before I am castigated by it's admirers, I can see that a great deal of work has gone into the site and it gives an interesting view of Victorian life. However, even the workers are portrayed from a somewhat rosy perspective. I don't think my g.gr.mother would have seen 10 minutes of cheery joking in the kitchen of the Big House where she worked, as enough of a compensation for 14 to 18 hours of drudgery!

And as to other aspects of Victorian life - infant & maternal mortality, dual moral standards, Workhouses for the sick & destitute etc etc......

Off my soap box for a while!

Patrisia