Author: William Hepworth DIXON (F.S.A.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The London Prisons; with an Account of the More Distinguished Persons who Have Been Confined in Them. To which is Added, a Description of the Chief Provincial Prisons
Author: William Hepworth DIXON (F.S.A.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The London Prisons
Author: William Hepworth DixonPublisher:
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Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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London In The Nineteenth Century
Author: Jerry WhitePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446477118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
The Poetry and the Politics
Author: Gregory JamesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The nineteenth century was a time of 'movements' - political, social, moral reform causes - which drew on the energies of men and women across Britain. This book studies radical reform at the margins of early Victorian society, focusing on decades of particular social, political and technological ferment: when foreign and British promoters of extravagant technologically assisted utopias could attract many hundreds of supporters of limited means, persuaded to escape grim conditions by emigration to South America; when pioneers of vegetarianism joined the ranks of the temperance movement; and when working-class Chartists, reviving a struggle for political reform, seemed to threaten the State for a brief moment in April 1848. Through the forgotten figure of James Elmslie Duncan, 'shabby genteel' poet and self-proclaimed 'Apostle of the Messiahdom', The Poetry and the Politics considers themes including poetry's place in radical culture, the response of pantomime to the Chartist challenge to law and order, and associations between madness and revolution.Duncan became a promoter of the technological fantasies of John Adolphus Etzler, a poet of science who prophesied a future free from drudgery, through machinery powered by natural forces. Etzler dreamed of crystal palaces: Duncan's public freedom was to end dramatically in 1851 just as a real crystal palace opened to an astonished world. In addition to Duncan, James Gregory also introduces a cast of other poets, earnest reformers and agitators, such as William Thom the weaver poet of Inverury, whose metropolitan feting would end in tragedy; John Goodwyn Barmby, bearded Pontiffarch of the Communist Church; a lunatic 'Invisible Poet' of Cremorne pleasure gardens; the hatter from Reading who challenged the 'feudal' restrictions of the Game Laws by tract, trespass and stuffed jay birds; and foreign exotics such as the German-born Conrad Stollmeyer, escaping the sinking of an experimental Naval Automaton in Margate to build a fortune as theAsphalt King of Trinidad.Combining these figures with the biography of a man whose literary career was eccentric and whose public antics were capitalised upon by critics of Chartist agitation, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in radical reform and popular political movements in Victorian Britain.
A catalogue of the subscription library, at Kingston upon Hull [signed J.C.]. A catalogue, containing the works admitted since 1836
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Author: Joseph Clarke (of Hull.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston-upon-Hull; containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr. Clarke's Catalogue, in 1836. [Compiled by J. M. Stark.]
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Author: John Mozley STARKPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Christian Visitor's Hand-Book to London, Comprising a Guide to Churches and Chapels, ... Religious ... Societies, Ragged Schools, Etc
Author: LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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