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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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The Book Buyer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Nation
Author: Sir Arthur Helps and the Making of Victorianism
Author: Stephen KeckPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443863696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This study is the first treatment devoted to Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875), who was a prominent figure in the mid-Victorian world. Readers will discover that from the 1840s until his death, Helps was influential and well-known to many key figures: Carlyle, Ruskin, Froude and the Queen were among those whom he befriended. In fact, it was almost certainly these relationships which Helps sought to protect by directing that the bulk of his private papers and correspondence be destroyed upon his death. Making use of extensive primary and secondary sources, this book begins the process of recovering this once eminent Victorian. Helps did become a forgotten figure, but, nevertheless, during the course of his career he made notable impacts upon many areas of British life. At once a social activist and literary figure, Helps labored to promote social reform while also lifting his pen to educate his readers about the complexity of both societal problems and the difficulties inherent in adequately addressing them. He looked well beyond Britain as well: it would be Helps who authored a four volume history of the Spanish conquest of the New World, while developing unrivaled expertise on the history and practice of slavery in the Americas. As Clerk of the Privy Council, Helps played a decisive role in addressing the problems caused by the ‘Cattle Plague’ which shocked Britain in the middle of the 1860s. Most important, perhaps, it would be as Clerk that Helps served Queen Victoria not only as an informal confidant, but by making decisions which refashioned the monarchy’s public image. The book, then, reintroduces Helps by documenting and assessing his contributions to Victorian Britain.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: The Athenæum
Author: The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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The Academy
Author: The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1875-1890
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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