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The Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
ISBN: 978-1-59308-311-3
Suggested By: Rebecca Mitchell
Where: Home
When: 12:00-12:45A
Music: None
Company: Alone
Pages: 419 - 475 (56)
The Lead In: Super Sleepy, bear with me
The 411 on the 55: Well, quickly: Esther gets sick and almost dies. Mr. George gets pinched over an old debt to get ahold of his letters written by the dead captain. The gentleman keeping the captain’s notes from his apartment apparently combusts for no reason.
Line of the Day: “In gold?” says Mr. Bagnet. I’ll tell you what. The old girl’s weight - is twelve stone six. Would I take that weight - in any metal - for the old girl? No. Why not? Because the old girl’s metal is far more precious - than the preciousest metal. And she’s all metal!” pg 456
The Fact on the Fiction: Victorians worship success and money. The dream of businessmen is to join the aristocracy, but first they aspire to send their children to public schools, to acquire country houses and to marry into the landed gentry.
In 1850, the middle class is a fairly small group of professionals, factory owners, businessmen, merchants and bankers. There is a deep gulf between this group and the working classes. As Mrs Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management shows, you need lots of servants to prepare lavish meals, clean houses heated by filthy coal and generally work with few labour-saving devices. Time Traveller’s Guide to Victorian Britain
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