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  • The Victorian Working Class

    Selections from Letters to the Morning Chronicle

    Edición de R. W. Wainwright, P. Razzell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    In 1849, the Morning Chronicle, a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in the immediate context of concern over Chartism and the cholera epidemic, its intention was to provide a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material and physical condition of the industrial poor.First published in 1973, this book ... Leer más

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  • London Labour and the London Poor

    de Henry Mayhew ...
    London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume account of the hopes, customs, grievances and habits of the working-classes that allows them to ... Leer más

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  • Rural Rides

    Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett's ... Leer más

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  • Dickens's England

    Life in Victorian Times

    Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's ... Leer más

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  • Ragged London in 1861

    John Hollingshead (1827-1904) was an English journalist, writer and theatrical producer. Based on letters from the Morning Post, he published ‘Ragged London in 1861’ in the same year, capturing the essence of London’s bleak environment. in the novel, a correspondent travels through the underbelly of the metropolis, meeting and living with the very poorest and most desperate members of society. ... Leer más

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  • The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents and IndexCONTENTSPREFACEI. ANCESTRYII. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARSIII. EDUCATIONIV. FARMINGV. LAND AGENT IN CORKVI. FAMINE AND FEVERVII. FENIANISMVIII. MYSELF, SOME FACTS, AND MANY STORIESIX. THE HARENC ESTATEX. KERRY ELECTIONSXI. DRINKXII. PRIESTSXIII. CONSTABULARY AND DISPENSARY DOCTORSXIV. IRISH CHAR... ... Leer más

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  • The Outer Edge Of Ulster

    A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal

    de Hugh Dorian ...
    In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled 'Donegal Sixty Years Ago'. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication, is seeing the light of day only now, a century later. The author, an impoverished school-teacher and writing clerk, wrote with confidence and passion about the ... Leer más

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  • London Labour and the London Poor (Complete)

    de Henry Mayhew ...
    The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopædia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. It is believed that the book is curious for many reasons: It surely may be considered curious as being the first attempt to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves—giving a literal ... Leer más

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  • The Life of Thomas Telford Civil Engineer

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  • Robert Blincoe and the Cotton Trade

    A Memoir of Robert Blincoe' published in 1828 was influential in improving the working conditions of children in factories. It is also believed that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Robert Blincoe. This book contains the original full 1828 text of the memoir by John Brown and historical notes by the author, Stuart Courtman. The historical notes explore the influences that led to ... Leer más

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  • The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland

    OFF – EXPERIENCES IN A PULLMAN CAR – HOARDING THE ONTARIO – THE CAPTAIN – THE SEA AND SEA-SICKNESS – IMAGININGS IN THE STORM – LANDING AT BIRKENHEAD. ... Leer más

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  • Dickens' London

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