London in the Time of Dickens - Lillian Nayder, The Great Courses
by Lillian Nayder, The Great Courses — Narrated by Lillian Nayder
Genre: Documentary, History, Lecture
Duration: 06:08:59
By the start of the Victorian era, London was home to nearly 2 million people, a number that expanded to more than 6 million by 1901, the year of Queen Victoria’s death. This immense growth made the city an astonishing study in the varieties of human experience—the perfect place for a novelist to find his voice. Charles Dickens did just that in the 1830s.
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