London Family 1870-1900: A Trilogy

by Molly Hughes and M.V. Hughes

Book Overview

This is Molly Hughes' autobiographical account of her life in Victorian London. A London Child of the 1870s, A London Girl of the 1880s, and A London Home of the 1890s are available here in a single paperback volume. The perceptive trilogy traces her early life through schooldays, studies, and travels abroad, to the closing years of the last century, when she was married and bringing up a family of her own, showing that Victorian children did not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192828967
• ISBN13: 9780192828965
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wise and witty memoirs of middle-class Victorian life

A refreshingly lively look at middle-class life in Victorian London. Particularly good on education and travel. Ought to be reprinted!