LEADER 04836oam 2200577 a 450 001 9910826008303321 005 20130726110349.0 010 $a979-82-16-03305-9 010 $a979-82-16-16270-4 010 $a0-313-38688-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9798216033059 035 $a(OCoLC)894588001 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL8NLU 035 $a(OCoLC)1413729429 035 $a(DLC)ABC0313386897 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543742 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543742 100 $a20130725e20142023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVoices of Victorian England $econtemporary accounts of daily life /$fJohn A. Wagner, editor 210 1$aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$cGreenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,$d2014. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xlii, 298 pages) 225 1 $aVoices of an era 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-313-38689-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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) 327 $a5. "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) 327 $a10. "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) 327 $a15. "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 327 $a21. "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) 327 $a25. "Your Unauthorized and Most Improper Proceeding": Telegrams and Accounts Relating to the Jameson Raid (1895-1896) 330 $a The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. 410 0$aVoices of an era. 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yVictoria, 1837-1901$vSources 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1837-1901$vSources 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y18th century$vSources 676 $a941.081 701 $aWagner$b J. A$g(John A.)$01679724 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826008303321 996 $aVoices of Victorian England$94048178 997 $aUNINA