Results for: books tagged ‘Victorian’
A Choice of Rossetti's Verse: Christina Rossetti
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
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The Violent Effigy: John Carey
An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens’s imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens’s work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, ... More
Cultural Babbage: Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow
With contributions from writers on both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a collection of quirky and offbeat essays on technology, culture and forgotten or imaginary histories. Taking as ... More
Mendelssohn Remembered: Roger Nichols
If Mendelssohn had known he would die before he was forty, he could scarcely have filled his life with more activity and achievement. His startling precocity is equalled perhaps only ... More
Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife: Ann Thwaite
It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. ... More
Elizabeth Gaskell: Jenny Uglow
High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. In this widely ... More
The Faber Book of Christmas: Simon Rae
Like it or loathe it, the world's greatest religious festival is far more than the traditional package (largely invented by the Victorians) of Christmas trees, cards, decorations and stockings hung ... More
The Erotomaniac: Ian Gibson
Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of ... More
The Dark Clue: James Wilson
'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it ... More
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