Book Description
An anthology of contemporary writings of the Victorian and Edwardian Oxfordshire period that were taken from books, magazines, letters and diaries. It is accompanied by a selection of contemporary photographs reproduced in sepia.
Author : Eleanor Chance
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445626128
An anthology of contemporary writings of the Victorian and Edwardian Oxfordshire period that were taken from books, magazines, letters and diaries. It is accompanied by a selection of contemporary photographs reproduced in sepia.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : B.T. Batsford
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
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Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
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Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : 9780902280052
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192829047
Victorian novelist Mary Ward, best known to her contemporaries as Mrs. Humphry Ward, was one of the most successful and complex women of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into the powerful but patriarchal dynasty of Thomas Arnold of Rugby, she lived at the center of an intellectual and cultural circle peopled by such eminent figures as Mark Pattison, Thomas Huxley, and Charles Darwin. Her novel Robert Elsmere (1888), the first in a series of bestsellers, earned her both unprecedented sums of money and the critical respect of such writers as Henry James. She helped found Somerville College, Oxford, the University's first institution of higher education of women, and helped create a number of play centers for the children of London's working poor. And as the first woman reporter to enter the trenches in 1916, she wrote articles that were instrumental in bringing America into the war. In Mrs. Humphry Ward, John Sutherland explores a goldmine of materials never before available to recapture a fascinating life, one in which extraordinary achievements were often overshadowed by private misfortune. Sutherland describes how Ward's parents' marriage was shattered by her father's religious peregrinations (an Anglican, he converted to Roman Catholicism, then returned to the Church of England, then became a Catholic again), how her own remarkable success placed considerable stress on her marriage, and how all her resources (both financial and emotional) went to support a renegade, spendthrift, and disappointing son. And he also sheds light on one of the great paradoxes of this accomplished woman's life--that she led the fight to block woman's suffrage. Throughout, Sutherland writes movingly of the private life of a remarkable public figure. A fascinating study of how much a woman could and could not do in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, this engaging biography illuminates the intellectual climate of the late 19th century.
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1445626004
A superbly- illustrated account of the British system of education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Sevin Seydi, London
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 1980
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File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 1971
Category : London (England)
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Author : Michael J. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666938793
Drawing together themes in Church of England history, the activity of second-generation leaders of the Oxford Movement, social change, secularization, and Victorian recreation, The Church of England and Victorian Oxford explains the difficulties faced by Churchmen who tried to use self-improvement and leisure to accomplish religious goals.