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"[Picard's] curiosity and practical femininity enliven this charming ragbag of information about mid-eighteenth-century London. This is not a book designed for an academic social-history course, though undergraduates will doubtless plunder it for its delightful vignettes and quotations."Picard, Liza is the author of 'Dr. Johnson's London Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education' with ISBN 9780312291532 and ISBN 0312291531.
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