The Victorians / A.N. Wilson
2007, 1st edition. London : Hutchinson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Item #438709
Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Contents; Early Victorian -- 1. The Little Old Woman Britannia -- 2. Victoria's Inheritance -- 3. The Charter -- 4. Typhoon Coming On -- 5. The Age of Peel -- 6. Famine in Ireland -- 7. Doubt -- 8. The Failed Revolution -- The Eighteen-Fifties -- 9. The Great Exhibition -- 10. Marx -- Ruskin -- Pre-Raphaelites -- 11. The Crimean War -- 12. India 1857-9 -- 13. Clinging to Life -- The Eighteen-Sixties -- 14. The Beloved -- Uncle Tom -- and Governor Eyre -- 15. The World of School -- 16. Goblin Market and the Cause -- 17. Wonderland -- 18. Some Deaths -- The Eighteen-Seventies -- 19. Gladstone's First Premiership -- 20. The Side of the Angels -- 21. The End of Lord Beaconsfield -- 22. Wagner -- Gilbert and Sullivan -- 23. Country Parishes -- Hardy -- The Eighteen-Eighties -- 24. A Crazy Decade -- 25. The Plight of the Poor -- 26. The Rise of Parnell -- 27. The Fourth Estate -- Gordon of Khartoum -- The Maiden Tribute of Babylon -- 28. Politics of the Late 1880s -- 29. Into Africa -- 30. Kipling's India -- 31. Jubilee -- and the Munshi -- 32. The Dock Strike -- 33. The Scarlet Thread of Murder -- 34. The Fall of Parnell -- The Eighteen-Nineties -- 35. The Victorian Way of Death -- 36. Appearance and Reality -- 37. Utopia: The Decline of the Aristocracy -- 38. The Boer War -- 39. Vale. Subjects; 1800-1901, Intellectual life. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.
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