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Victorian England's Bestselling Author

Stephen Basdeo,Mya Driver

Author : Stephen Basdeo,Mya Driver
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399015752

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George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his “penny blood” The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds’s Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Court of London (1849–56), contained tales of crime, vice, and highly sexualised scenes. For this reason Charles Dickens remarked that Reynolds’s name was one “with which no lady’s, and no gentleman’s, should be associated.” Yet Reynolds was much more than just a novelist; he was lauded by the working classes as their champion and campaigned for universal suffrage. To further the working classes’ cause, he established two newspapers: Reynolds’s Political Instructor and Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper. The latter newspaper, as Karl Marx recognized, became the principal organ of radical and labour politics. This book provides a biography of Reynolds and reproduces his editorials from Reynolds’s Political Instructor as well as excerpts from his fiction.

Victorian London

Liza Picard

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780226521

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Victorian London by Liza Picard Pdf

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.

Victorian Bestseller

Karen Bourrier

Author : Karen Bourrier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472131389

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Victorian Bestseller by Karen Bourrier Pdf

When novelist Dinah Craik (1826–87) died, expressions of grief came from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, and James Russell Lowell, among others, and even Queen Victoria picked up her pen to offer her consolation to the widower. Despite Craik’s enormous popularity throughout a literary career that spanned forty years, she is now all but forgotten. Yet, in an otherwise respectable life bookended by scandal, this was precisely the way that she wanted it. Victorian Bestseller is the first book to relate the story of Dinah Craik’s remarkable life. Combining extensive archival work with theoretical work in disability studies and the professionalization of women’s authorship, Karen Bourrier engagingly traces the contours of this author’s life. Craik, who wrote extensively about disability in her work, was no stranger to it in her personal and professional life, marked by experiences of mental and physical disability, and the ebb and flow of health. Following scholarship in the ethics of care and disability studies, the book posits Craik as an interdependent subject, placing her within a network of writers, publishers, editors and artists, friends, and family members. Victorian Bestseller also traces the conditions in the material history of the book that allowed Victorian women writers’ careers to flourish. In doing so, the biography connects corporeality, gender, and the material history of the book to the professionalization of Victorian women’s authorship.

Master of His Fate

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Author : Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250187413

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Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his days working at his father’s market stall, is determined to become a merchant prince. Even as a child, he is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. James quickly rises through the ranks, proving himself both hardworking and trustworthy, and catching the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. But when threats against his reputation – and his life - begin to emerge, James will have to prove that he truly is the master of his fate. Through scandal and romance, tragedy and triumph, the Falconer and Malvern family’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways in this expansive and intricately detailed new novel filled with drama, intrigue, and Bradford's trademark cast of compelling characters.

A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England

Michelle Higgs

Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834460

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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs Pdf

An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.

Southampton Row

Anne Perry

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345523686

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Southampton Row by Anne Perry Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so enflamed that Thomas Pitt, shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered not to solve a crime but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidate—and Pitt’s archenemy—is Charles Voisey. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife’s dalliance with spiritualism threatens his chances. Indeed, she is one of the participants in a late-night séance that becomes the swan song of a stylish clairvoyant who is found brutally murdered the next morning in her house on Southampton Row. Meanwhile, Pitt’s wife, Charlotte, and their children are enjoying a country vacation—unaware that they, too, are deeply endangered by the same fanatical forces hovering over the steadfast Pitt.

The Making of Victorian England

G. Kitson Clark

Author : G. Kitson Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136124129

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The Making of Victorian England by G. Kitson Clark Pdf

Based on the Ford Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1960, the author describes some of the forces which created what we call `Victorian England'.

The Victorian City

Judith Flanders

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1250068266

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The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Pdf

The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology-railways, street-lighting, and sewers-transformed both the city and the experience of city-living. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.

Rutland Place

Anne Perry

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453219126

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Rutland Place by Anne Perry Pdf

A mystery set in Victorian England by the New York Times–bestselling author whose “novels attain the societal sweep of Trollope or Thackeray” (Booklist, starred review). When her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with a compromising picture, neither Charlotte Pitt, nor her mother, has any idea that the locket may be at the center of a bizarre chain of events leading to murder. Arriving at her mother’s home at Rutland Place, Charlotte discovers that other residents of the exclusive neighborhood have also suffered similar small thefts. It all appears quite mild as crimes go—a light-fingered servant, perhaps. That is, until Mina Spencer-Brown, a woman known for her prying, is poisoned and dies. Inspector Thomas Pitt quickly surmises that Mina’s snooping might have led to her murder, but what secrets had she stumbled upon? And whose? As Pitt patiently struggles to break down the protective silence of high-born neighbors, Charlotte works behind the closed doors of society’s drawing rooms to help unravel a mystery that reveals sordid secrets and the chilling, dark corners of human behavior.

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

Author : Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429676994

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England by Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders Pdf

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times. With a temporal focus on women’s life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing on osteological sources, medical discourses, and examples from the literature and cultural history of the period, alongside social and environmental data derived from ethnographic and archival investigations, the authors explore the experience of being female in the Victorian era for women across classes. In synthesizing current research on demographic statistics, maternal morbidity and mortality, and bioarchaeological evidence on patterns of aging and death, they analyze how changing social ideals, cultural and environmental variability, shifting economies, and evolving medical and scientific understanding about the body combined to shape female health and identity in the nineteenth century. Victorian women faced a variety of challenges, including changing attitudes regarding appropriate behavior, social roles, and beauty standards, while grappling with new understandings of the role played by gender and sexuality in shaping women’s lives from youth to old age. The book concludes by considering the relevance of how Victorian narratives of womanhood and the experience of being female have influenced perceptions of female health and cultural constructions of identity today.

Blind Justice

Anne Perry

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345536723

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER For a generation, Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels have invited readers to explore the brilliantly seductive heart of Victorian London, where great wealth and great evil live side by side, and great men sometimes make unfortunate choices. In Blind Justice, Hester Monk, the wife of William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police, questions the finances of a London church whose members’ hard-earned charitable gifts appear to have ended up in the pocket of charismatic preacher Abel Taft, paying for his fine home and the stylish outfits of his wife and daughters. Taft is accused of extortion, and brilliant barrister Oliver Rathbone, newly appointed a judge, is chosen to preside over his trial. It seems clear that Taft is indeed guilty. However, at the last second, the defense produces a witness who completely undermines the charges. Then Rathbone makes a well-meaning but reckless move that could ruin his career, his reputation, and his life. Blind Justice presents a rich and lively panorama of London life, from the teeming Thames docks to the wealthy West End, while unfolding a magnificent courtroom drama. And while justice, law, and morality hang in the balance, Hester and Monk race to save their distinguished friend Rathbone from disgrace. The incomparable art of Anne Perry grips us fast until the final, unforgettable scene. Praise for Blind Justice “A staggering achievement . . . Perry’s command of plot and prose shines.”—Bookreporter “Ranks among the best [Anne] Perry has written. Her courtroom scenes have the realism of Scott Turow.”—Huntington News “Gripping . . . Those who love Victorian England will relish Ms. Perry’s presentation of period details. Her mastery of this time and place gives credence to the characters’ moral and legal struggles.”—New York Journal of Books Praise for Anne Perry and her Wiliam Monk novels A Sunless Sea “Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”—The New York Times Book Review Acceptable Loss “Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue.”—The Star-Ledger Execution Dock “[An] engrossing page-turner . . . There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”—The Boston Globe Dark Assassin “Brilliant . . . a page-turning thriller . . . blending compelling plotting with superbly realized human emotion and exquisite period detail.”—Jeffery Deaver, author of Edge The Shifting Tide “The mysterious and dangerous waterfront world of London’s ‘longest street,’ the Thames, comes to life.”—South Florida Sun-Sentinel

How to be a Victorian

Ruth Goodman

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958346

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How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

Victorian England

L. C. B. Seaman

Author : L. C. B. Seaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134947904

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Victorian England by L. C. B. Seaman Pdf

This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period.

Victorians Undone

Kathryn Hughes

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421425702

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Victorians Undone by Kathryn Hughes Pdf

In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.

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YCT Expert Team

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Victorian England S Bestselling Author

Victorian England's Bestselling Author by Stephen Basdeo,Mya Driver Pdf

Victorian London by Liza Picard Pdf

Victorian Bestseller by Karen Bourrier Pdf

Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford Pdf

A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs Pdf

Southampton Row by Anne Perry Pdf

The Making of Victorian England by G. Kitson Clark Pdf

The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Pdf

Rutland Place by Anne Perry Pdf

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England by Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders Pdf

Blind Justice by Anne Perry Pdf

How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

Victorian England by L. C. B. Seaman Pdf

Victorians Undone by Kathryn Hughes Pdf

2024-25 DSSSB TGT/PGT English Solved Papers 240 495 E This book contains TGT previous years solved questions from 2014 to 2021 shift-I, II and III and PGT previous years solved papers from 2014 to February 2024 shift-I and II by YCT Expert Team Pdf

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