VICTORIAN REMAINS PB (Hughes Kathryn)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquis Victorians Undone - Kathryn Hughes od authora Kathryn Hughes a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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