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1895 : drama, disaster and disgrace in late Victorian Britain / Nicholas Freeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Nicholas.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Conduct of life.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century--Periodicals.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kill the bugger!' So read one telegram to the Marquess of Queensberry before his legal battle with Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895. Today's readers often see the Wilde case as dramatising the intolerance and cruelty of late-Victorian life, but what was its contemporary significance? What was it like to live in Britain in 1895? Which stories, personalities and events really captured the headlines?
- Contents:
- Into the Past: A Brief Foreword
- Winter: 15 September 1894 - 28 February 1895
- Spring: 1 March 1895 - 30 May 1895
- Summer: 1 June 1895 - 31 August 1895
- Autumn into Winter: 1 September 1895 - 31 December 1895.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5139-X
- 1-283-37007-7
- 9786613370075
- 0-7486-5084-9
- OCLC:
- 818853404
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