Author: William Connor SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Early Days of the Nineteenth Century in England, L800-1820
Author: William Connor SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Dirty Old London
Author: Lee JacksonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300192053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
A History of Great Britain
Author: Howard RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Nineteenth-century English
Author: Richard W. BaileyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085408
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
The Early Days of the Nineteenth Century in England, 1800-1820
Author: William Connor SydneyPublisher: London : G. Redway
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
Author: Dianne DugawPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226169163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.
Roman Plays in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: John Dunn MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Author: David BrucePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739183389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The social conscience of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, nineteenth-century London’s poorest parish. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a parliamentary career that lasted nearly two decades. Buxton’s association with noted activist William Wilberforce led to his own involvement in the anti-slavery movement, a cause he fiercely championed, resulting in Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1834. Buxton’s involvement in the disastrous 1841 Niger expedition effectively ended his public career and paved the way to British imperialism in Africa. A man of many interests, Buxton also supported Catholic emancipation and ending the Hindu suttee. Few nineteenth-century social reformers have had as much of an impact or have cast as long a shadow as Buxton. At the time of his death, many saw him as the epitome of Christian activism, yet today Buxton remains largely ignored and forgotten. David Bruce examines the life of one of Great Britain’s most prominent social activists. Using his personal papers, and the papers and books of his friends, associates, and contemporaries, The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton paints a portrait of a unique individual driven to improve his world.
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