Voices of Victorian England : contemporary accounts of daily life / John A. Wagner, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, J. A. (John A.)

Series:

Voices of an era.

Voices of an era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Sources.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901--Sources.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlii, 298 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Victorian Britain; Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents; Chronology; DOCUMENTS OF VICTORIAN BRITAIN; Politics and Parliament; 1. "We Demand Universal Suffrage": The National Petition (1839); 2. "Choose Your Motto: 'Advance' or 'Recede' ": Prime Minister Robert Peel's Speech Supporting Repeal of the Corn Laws (1846); 3. "Every Man Shall . . . Be Entitled to Be Registered as a Voter": The Reform Act of 1867; 4. "The Sympathy of the Colonies for the Mother Country": Benjamin Disraeli's "Crystal Palace Speech" (1872)

5. "No Great Day of Hope for Ireland": Prime Minister William Gladstone's House of Commons Speech Proposing Irish Home Rule (1886)Society and Economy; 6. "Children Having Begun to Work before They Are Nine": Second Report of the Children's Employment Commission (1843); 7. "It Is the Custom of 'Society' to Abuse Its Servants": Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861); 8. "Barely a Day's March Ahead of Actual Want": Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1861); 9. "I Thought Such Young Men Could Not Manage the Bank": Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873)

10. "Grey Tones Overcast the Mind": Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London (1893)Religion and Science; 11. "The Truth of These Propositions Cannot . . . Be Disputed": Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859); 12. "Mr. Darwin's Daring Notion": Samuel Wilberforce's Review of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1860); 13. "Man Is . . . One with the Brutes": T. H. Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863); 14. "My Own Soul Was My First Concern": Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)

15. "There Is an Athenian Love of Novelty Abroad": J. C. Ryle's Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (1877)Literature and Poetry; 16. "What I Want Is Facts . . . Nothing But Facts": Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854); 17. "Into the Valley of Death": Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854); 18. "And You Wish to Serve the Queen?": Anthony Trollope's The Three Clerks (1858); 19. "Has He Got Any Heart?": George Eliot's Middlemarch (1874); 20. "The Captains and the Kings Depart": Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" (1897); Empire and War

21. "Murderous Volley of Grape and Canister": W. H. Russell's Eyewitness Account of the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)22. "We Were at a Loss What to Do": Edward Vibart's The Sepoy Mutiny , a Memoir of the Indian Rebellion (1857); 23. "No One Living Escaped": Frances Colenso's History of the Zulu War , an Account of the British Defeat at Isandlwana (1879); 24. "Dreadful News after Breakfast": Letters of the Queen and Prime Minister Gladstone Reacting to the Death of General Gordon (1885)

25. "Your Unauthorized and Most Improper Proceeding": Telegrams and Accounts Relating to the Jameson Raid (1895-1896)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216033059

9798216162704

9780313386886

0313386889

OCLC:

894588001