Dr. Johnson's London · Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education by Picard, Liza -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Epigraph Preface Part One: The Place

Chapter 1: Facts and Figures

Two City tours The City The west end

Chapter 2: London and Westminster

The City streets Street cleaning Paving and lighting Shop signs Animals The Watch Night-soil collectors Street trees Westminster slums and squares New developments The New Road The Strand The Grosvenor Estate Other developments

Chapter 3: Water

London Bridge Westminster Bridge Blackfriars Bridge Water supply The London Bridge water-wheels The New River Other companies

Chapter 4: Traffic

Noise Chairs Horses Hackney coaches Hired carriages Private carriages Wagons, carts and chaises Stage coaches Processions The elephant Accidents A horseless carriage? River traffic Boats State occasions

Chapter 5: Green Spaces

The countryside The royal parks: Hyde Park Kensington Gardens St James’s Park The Green Park Other spaces Tenter grounds Survivals

Chapter 6: The Buildings

The slums Small houses Housing for the middling sort The Adelphi The great streets and squares Mansions Royal palaces

Part Two: The Poor

Chapter 7: Massie’s Analysis Chapter 8: The Welfare System

Settlement Parish babies Apprenticeship Workhouses Contracting out Outdoor relief Badges The Irish Death

Chapter 9: Living Conditions

The home Food Schooling Fleet weddings Divorce Children Clothes Credit Imprisonment for debt Funerals

Chapter 10: Philanthropy

Private enterprise Foundlings The Foundling Hospital The Marine Society The Female Orphan Asylum The Magdalen Charity Foreigners The old Impulse giving

Chapter 11: The Sick Poor

Magic and folklore The old hospitals St Bartholomew’s St Thomas’s Bedlam The new hospitals The Westminster Guy’s St George’s The London The Middlesex The Lock Hospital The smallpox hospitals Insanity Maternity hospitals The dispensary movement Hospital governors Hospital administration

Chapter 12: Work

Children Street vendors Porters Labour relations Silk weavers Tailors Coal heavers Seamen Watermen Casualties and industrial diseases Holidays The press-gangs

Chapter 13: Slaves, Servants and Domestic Work

Slaves Domestic servants Cleaning and laundry work Housemaids Chambermaids Nursery maids Boys Footmen Perquisites and tips Conditions of service

Chapter 14: Amusements

Gin Animal baiting Boxing Ball games Boys Riots The pillory Executions Clubs The lottery The sights of London City occasions

Chapter 15: Crime and Punishment

Children Pickpockets Highwaymen Robbers Grave robbers Kidnappers Counterfeiters Cheating sailors Law enforcement Trials Peine fort et dur Benefit of clergy Pregnancy Pardons Execution Anatomising Hanging in chains Imprisonment The pillory Whipping Branding Transportation General

Part Three: The Middling Sort

Chapter 16: Dentistry, Health and Medical Care

Dentistry Toothpaste Decay Extraction Transplanting False teeth Health Expectation of life Midwives and accoucheurs Infancy Diseases of children Consumption Fevers Gout Hernias Venereal disease Respiratory diseases Insanity Advice books Household remedies Patent medicines Quack doctors Electricity Bloodletting and cupping Qualified practitioners Marriage Old age

Chapter 17: Childhood, Schooling and Religion

Toddlers Children’s games Female education Boyhood The Dissenting Academies Public schools The foreign tour Apprenticeship Religion

Chapter 18: A Woman’s World

Emigration Career women Marriage Lord Hardwicke’s Act Household duties Food shopping Markets Food shops Street vendors Cooking Dinner Breakfast Luncheon and supper Wine Family planning

Chapter 19: The Middling Rank of Men

Coffee-houses and clubs Rich merchants and traders Sinecures The professions: law Medicine Teaching The Church The Army and Navy Amusements: gambling Boxing Cricket Cock-fighting The lottery Swimming Sex Bagnios and brothels Prostitutes Pornography

Chapter 20: Fashion and Beauty

Female underwear Stays Hoops Dresses Fabrics Accessories Shoes Jewellery Cosmetics Men’s clothes Waistcoats Jewellery Shirts Underwear Dry cleaning Women’s hairstyles Wigs and shaving Men’s hats Personal hygiene Mourning

Chapter 21: Interiors and Gardens

Rented rooms Interior decorating DIY Plaster Paint Wallpaper Other wall coverings Floors The furniture trade Chippendale Tables and desks Beds Lighting Silver Gardens Small gardens Grander gardens Garden planning Suppliers Health

Chapter 22: Parties of Pleasure

The pleasure gardens Vauxhall Ranelagh Other pleasure gardens Shopping The Tombs and Lions Freakshows and monster-mongers The British Museum The Red Indian chiefs The theatre Oratorios and operas Picture exhibitions Balls

Chapter 23: Manners, Speech, Conversation and Customs

Etiquette: the hat The bow Stand easy The curtsy or sink The language of fans Children Table manners Foreigners’ views Spoken English Conversation Customs: weddings Funerals

Part Four: The Rich

Chapter 24: High Society

Money Houses Personal possessions Pastimes Good works Crimes

Chapter 25: The King

George II George III The royal standard of living The mob and the King The King and Samuel Johnson

Appendix: Cost of Living, Currency and Prices Notes Index Copyright

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