Book Description
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547395744
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1966
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Sanders
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary landmarks
ISBN : 9780709088318
No novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens's work and he re-created London in his fiction. This book follows in his footsteps through the streets of the city, exploring the nature and architecture of Victorian London.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1466835451
From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English 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, sewers, 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.
Author : Wolf Mankowitz
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Biography of the English author who rose from extreme poverty to become one of the most popular writers of all time.
Author : Alex Werner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0091943736
Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for his work, it takes the reader on a memorable and haunting journey, discovering the places and subjects which stimulated his imagination. It includes photographs of famous landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and Westminster Abbey, alongside coaching inns, the Thames before the Embankment was built, the construction of the Metropolitan Underground Line, the docklands that studded the river and the many villages that make up London today.
Author : Thomas Edgar PEMBERTON
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1876
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tracy Kasaboski
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1771622032
In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317863445
‘Among the numerous books on Dickens’s London, Going Astray is unique in combining detailed topography and biography with close textual analysis and theoretically informed critiques of most of the novelist’s major works. In Jeremy Tambling’s intriguing and illuminating synthesis, the London A-Z meets Nietzsche, Benjamin and Derrida.’ Rick Allen, author of The Moving Pageant: A Literary Sourcebook on London Street-Life, 1700-1914 Dickens wrote so insistently about London – its streets, its people, its unknown areas – that certain parts of the city are forever haunted by him. Going Astray: Dickens and London looks at the novelist’s delight in losing the self in the labyrinthine city and maps that interest, onto the compulsion to ‘go astray’ in writing. Drawing on all Dickens’ published writings (including the journalism but concentrating on the novels), Jeremy Tambling considers the author’s kaleidoscopic characterisations of London: as prison and as legal centre; as the heart of empire and of traumatic memory; as the place of the uncanny; as an old curiosity shop. His study examines the relations between narrative and the city, and explores how the metropolis encapsulates the problems of modernity for Dickens – as well as suggesting the limits of representation. Combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with historical maps, photographs and contextual detail, Jeremy Tambling’s book is an indispensable guide to Dickens, nineteenth- century literature, and the city itself.
Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0525436154
Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting true-crime whodunit with a fascinating account of the rise of the popular novel and the early battle for its soul among the most famous writers of the day.