Victorian People and IdeasLife in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age. |
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... mid - Victorian London in terms powerfully sug- gestive of Purgatory and Hell . In many ways , cities were in truth unpleasant places for men to live . Yet the sensitive Victorian's denunciation of the city was also a convention ...
... mid - Victorian London in terms powerfully sug- gestive of Purgatory and Hell . In many ways , cities were in truth unpleasant places for men to live . Yet the sensitive Victorian's denunciation of the city was also a convention ...
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... Victorian age as well as of the first half of the period itself . Another of Briggs's books , Victorian People : A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-67 ( 1965 ) , studies the mid - Victorian era through some of its representative ...
... Victorian age as well as of the first half of the period itself . Another of Briggs's books , Victorian People : A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-67 ( 1965 ) , studies the mid - Victorian era through some of its representative ...
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... Victorian England ( 1962 ) , gracelessly written but valuable for its ... Victorian England ( 1964 ) , half pictures , half text . The two portly volumes of ... Mid - Victorian Britain 1851-1875 ( 1971 ) , treat their subjects from the ...
... Victorian England ( 1962 ) , gracelessly written but valuable for its ... Victorian England ( 1964 ) , half pictures , half text . The two portly volumes of ... Mid - Victorian Britain 1851-1875 ( 1971 ) , treat their subjects from the ...
Contents
THE LONGEST REIGN 18371901 | 1 |
ACTORS AND AUDIENCE | 17 |
The Gentry and the Middle Class | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian ... Richard Daniel Altick No preview available - 1973 |
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