In 1700, London was a city like no other, poised between medievalism
and future empire. London had endured a plague and witnessed the
Great Fire of 1666. A king had been publicly executed at Whitehall.
Now the city with Christopher Wren's skyline of churches bulged with
riches and boasted the most glittering jewels of England: John Locke,
George Handel, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and astronomer Edmund
Halley. It was a city of flourishing merchants and a rising standard
of living, but its inhabitants also waded deep in the mire of
nightsoil, disease, and crime. Maureen Waller has written a biography
of the teeming, sprawling London previously known only through
fiction.
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