How To Be A Victorian

For many of us, our knowledge of Victorian-era Britain is drawn from our annual revisiting of A Christmas Carol. 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^th Century Brit in How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life (Liveright).