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    Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

    Liza Picard

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    Like its acclaimed predecessors, RESTORATION LONDON and DR. JOHNSON'S LONDON, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often ignored in conventional history books.

    The book begins with the River Thames, which - from its surly water-men, to its great occasions - played such a central part in the city's life.

    It then moves on to the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework and shopping; clothes, jewellery and make-up; health and medicine; sex and food; education, etiquette and hobbies; religion, law and crime.

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    Praise for Elizabeth's London

    • this is a book for ducking and weaving through.... this makes satisfying toilet reading - especially the bits about how private loos in the age of Shakespeare were even nastier than our nastiest public loos today. - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - Christopher BrayLiza Picard brilliantly captures the spirit of the age. - EXPRESSELIZABETH'S LONDON is satisfyingly rich and substantial. - AROUND THE GLOBE - Daniel Hahn

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    Liza Picard

    Liza Picard

    Liza Picard was born in 1927. She read law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister, but did not practise.

    She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue and lived in Gray's Inn and Hackney, before retiring to live in Oxford.

    RESTORATION LONDON, the result of many years' interest and research into London life, was her first book.

    Previous titles:

    Elizabeth's London (HC May 03);

    Dr Johnson's London;

    Restoration London

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