Summary: <p><em><em><em><em>[2014-12-02 12:00:00] </em></em></em></em>For many of us, our knowledge of Victorian-era Britain is drawn from our annual revisiting of <a href="http://www.artandseek.org/event.php?id=55425" target="_blank"><em>A Christmas Carol</em></a>. This hour, we’ll find out what it was really like to lace up a corset, spoon feed a child opium and do your laundry on a stove with Ruth Goodman. She writes about her experience living like a 19<sup>th</sup> Century Brit in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Victorian-Dawn---Dusk/dp/0871404850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417022993&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+be+a+victorian" target="_blank"><em>How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life</em></a> Liveright).</p>
