London Life in the 18th Century

London Life in the 18th Century by George, Mary Dorothy. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780897331470.

From the disease infected rookeries and teeming vice-ridden streets to the sweatshops, coffee houses and spacious parks, Georges recreation of a capital city in a dirty, brutal—but also elegant—age has never been surpassed. Both a social history and an impeccably documented reference work, her book chronicles the change in social attitudes between 1700 and 1800, which left London cleaner, healthier and more ordered.