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A suburban house would have been useless in Dickens' time due to the lack of automobiles.
by lozenge 5y ago
A suburban house would have been useless in Dickens' time due to the lack of automobiles.
- eru 5y agoBritain already had some railways in 1843. The 1840s were the time of railway mania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania (Compare also the earlier Canal Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania ) But, yes, obviously 19th century Britain didn't have anything like the modern American car-commuter suburb.