How long does it take to read Daily Life in 18Th-century England?
Kirstin Olsen
Daily Life in 18Th-century England by Kirstin Olsen takes about 7 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 395 pages, about 108,625 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Illuminating the food, habits, language, behavior, sex lives, childhood, health care, housing, and attitudes of 18th-century English people, this exploration of the time and place also provides the reader with such detailed information as how people fought, courted, drank, married, traveled, worshiped, shopped, and dressed. Twenty chapters describe and illustrate the century's politics, class structure, family structure, urban and rural environments, architecture and much more. Also offered are recipes, so the reader can recreate an 18th-century meal, song lyrics, children's rhymes, rules for 18th-century games, an extensive list of salaries for different occupations, the text of the original Riot Act, reproduced cosmetics recipes, and other concrete examples of daily life and language that make the century tangible.
Subjects: Social life and customs, History, Great britain, social conditions, Manners and customs, Social Conditions
