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Author : John Burnett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Case studies
ISBN : 0415104017
This is a record of childhood that reveals in detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of 19th century working class life.
Author : Proffessor John Burnett,John Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136151323
Burnett is a pioneer of working-class autobiographical history Very well reviewed
Author : Ginger S. Frost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313068171
The experiences of children growing up in Britain during Victorian times are often misunderstood to be either idyllic or wretched. Yet, the reality was more wide-ranging than most imagine. Here, in colorful detail and with firsthand accounts, Frost paints a complete picture of Victorian childhood that illustrates both the difficulties and pleasures of growing up during this period. Differences of class, gender, region, and time varied the lives of children tremendously. Boys had more freedom than girls, while poor children had less schooling and longer working lives than their better-off peers. Yet some experiences were common to almost all children, including parental oversight, physical development, and age-based transitions. This compelling work concentrates on marking out the strands of life that both separated and united children throughout the Victorian period. Most historians of Victorian children have concentrated on one class or gender or region, or have centered on arguments about how much better off children were by 1900 than 1830. Though this work touches on these themes, it covers all children and focuses on the experience of childhood rather than arguments about it. Many people hold myths about Victorian families. The happy myth is that childhood was simpler and happier in the past, and that families took care of each other and supported each other far more than in contemporary times. In contrast, the unhappy myth insists that childhood in the past was brutal—full of indifferent parents, high child mortality, and severe discipline at home and school. Both myths had elements of truth, but the reality was both more complex and more interesting. Here, the author uses memoirs and other writings of Victorian children themselves to challenge and refine those myths.
Author : Marjory Wroe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546295327
Set in the 1990’s the novel explores how fate can destroy the destiny of dreams. Human tragedies are everyday occurrences and how these are dealt with depends upon factors such as religious beliefs, current responsibilities, support from family and friends and maturity. Jo and Kate are verging on adolescence when tragedy robs them of family and friends. They believe that the only way they can put the past behind them is by running away from it.
Author : Alfred Cellier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Cantatas, Secular
ISBN : UCAL:B3419364
Author : cynthia inniss
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781312347274
In this book, "Escaping Obscurity, Napoleon Encounters Jesus?" the author looks at the lives of a few who scaled the heights and found fame, fortune and uncommon success. With an eye towards examining the wisdom principles they've employed, she focuses on Napoleon in an effort to prove that all wisdom originates from God; and that this same Wisdom works for anyone who will employ it.
Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216163992
With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.
Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Holography
ISBN : UOM:39015030853983
Author : Christine Gerrard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118702291
A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).
Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Urban Poor
ISBN : 0719039908
Demonstrates how people reacted to poverty and highlights their coping strategies
Author : Sally Coulthard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800240872
A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book' Country Smallholding 'Engaging and filled with gentle humour and fascinating facts' Get History 'Shows us the beauty and rich history of everyday things' Country Walking Magazine Across the foldyard from Sally Coulthard's North Yorkshire farmhouse, stands an old stone barn. When she discovered a set of witches' marks on one of its internal walls, she began to wonder about the lives of the people who had once lived and worked there. Both the intimate story of a building and its hinterland, and a wider social history, The Barn explores a hidden corner of rural Britain that has witnessed remarkable changes. From the eighteenth-century Enclosures to the Second World War, the fortunes of the Barn have been blown, like a leaf in a gale, by the unstoppable forces of new agriculture and industry. Seismic shifts in almost every area of society were all played out here in miniature – against a backdrop of scattered limestone villages and the softly rolling Howardian Hills.
Author : Anne-Julia Zwierlein,Katharina Boehm,Anna Farkas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136669026
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural, legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern debates about aging in the nineteenth century – a period that saw the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
Author : William Lee Miller
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375701733
William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician — one who made the choice to go into politics, and ultimately realized that vocation’s fullest moral possibilities. As Lincoln’s Virtues makes refreshingly clear, Lincoln was not born with his face on Mount Rushmore; he was an actual human being making choices — moral choices — in a real world. In an account animated by wit and humor, Miller follows this unschooled frontier politician’s rise, showing that the higher he went and the greater his power, the worthier his conduct would become. He would become that rare bird, a great man who was also a good man. Uniquely revealing of its subject’s heart and mind, it represents a major contribution to our understanding and of Lincoln, and to the perennial American discussion of the relationship between politics and morality.
Author : Erasmus Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Collins (N.Y. : Town)
ISBN : NYPL:33433062492172
Author : Thomas Gray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368630713
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
