Book Description
Victorian Leicester provides an engaging study of life in Leicester during the Victorian era from a well-known and respected author.
Author : Malcolm Elliott
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445620286
Victorian Leicester provides an engaging study of life in Leicester during the Victorian era from a well-known and respected author.
Author : Jack Simmons
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Chris Brooks
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 9780719040207
This is a reassessment of the phenomenon of church architecture in the 19th century. It presents a range of interpretations that approach Victorian churches as products of institutional needs, socio-cultural developments, and economic forces.
Author : Barry Haynes
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Charities
ISBN :
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 35,36 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 : Joseph O'Neill
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 147384276X
Criminals, drifters, beggars, the homeless, immigrants, prostitutes, tramping artisans, street entertainers, abandoned children, navvies, and families fallen on hard times a whole underclass of people on the margins of society passed through Victorian l
Author : R. L. Greenall
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Leicester (England)
ISBN :
Author : Mary Elizabeth Leighton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1460400305
The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience. The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.
Author : John Wigley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1980
Category : England
ISBN : 9780719007941
Author : Gordon Mursell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664225056
This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for those interested in exploring, teaching, or studying English spirituality. In two stand-alone volumes, it traces the history from Roman times until the year 2000. The main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late-modern feminist spirituality, are included. These volumes present the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.