Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian BritainA delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth century men and women, from the author of the bestselling The Victorian House. Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot drink. That was what England was like in the early