Social Life in England 1750-1850
F. J. Foakes-Jackson
Lu par Pamela Nagami
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces the mordant rural poet, George Crabbe, who began life as a surgeon apothecary and ended up as a parish rector who made house calls. He gives us a female convict, assorted Cambridge University dons, Regency fops and rakes, and Victorian slices of life from Dickens and Thackeray. In the last lecture we barrel over hedges and fences and through muddy lanes in headlong chase of the fox. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) (6 hr 3 min)
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quirky but enjoyable book, great reader!
A LibriVox Listener
Im a modern social historian so its very cool for me to listen to an earlier perspective on this topic and think about how iy subject evolved. Pamela Nagami's voice and pacing are marvelous!