Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London

Gillian Williamson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25701-6 (ISBN)

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A large proportion of London’s population lived in lodgings during the long 18th century, many of whom recorded their experiences. In this fascinating study, Gillian Williamson examines these experiences, recorded in correspondences and autobiographies, to offer unseen insights into the social lives of Londoners in this period, and the practice of lodging in Georgian London.

Williamson draws from an impressive array of sources, archives, newspapers, OBSP trials and literary representations to offer a thorough examination of lodging in London, to show how lodging and lodging houses sustained the economy of London during this time. Williamson offers a fascinating insight into the role lodging houses played as the facilitators of encounters and interactions, which offers an illuminating depiction of social relations beyond the family.

The result is an important contribution to current historiography, of interest to historians of Britain in the long 18th century.

Gillian Williamson has published on the eighteenth-century Gentleman’s Magazine and popular politics in mid-eighteenth century Westminster and has contributed to a Victoria County History ‘short’ volume on Newport, Essex.

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes
List of Abbreviations

1.Introduction
2.Making the Landlord, Landlady and Lodger
3.Meet the Landlords, Landladies and their Lodgers
4.Matchmaking
5.Moving in and Rubbing Along
6.Moving Out, Moving On
7.Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-25701-X / 135025701X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25701-6 / 9781350257016
Zustand	Neuware