Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day
Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day

Author: Frederick Waddy

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781537683522

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This book was originally published in 1873 and is a very interesting sketch of historical male figures of the time period. The illustrations are intricate and entertaining. This is a reproduction of an important historical work, scanned and digitized by the University of Toronto, and all the images are original scans of the historical text and illustrations. This publication is an effort to make the book accessible digitally and in print in a new, cleaner edition than has previously been published by enhancing image quality without taking away from the original integrity of the document. Add this wonderful work to your historic library! "A selection of the more well known of the leading 19th century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873) with drawings by Frederick Watty and accompanied by biographical pieces on each of the subjects. With the exception of one, it is a compilation of all the cartoon portraits that were featured in Once a Week, a magazine originally founded as a result of a dispute between Bradbury and Evans and Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans had been Dickens' publisher since 1844, including publishing his magazine Household Words. In 1859, Bradbury and Evans refused to carry an advertisement by Dickens explaining why he had broken with Mrs. Dickens. In consequence, Dickens stopped work on Household Words and founded a new magazine, All The Year Round, which he decided would be editorially independent of any publisher. Bradbury and Evans responded by founding Once A Week, with veteran editor and abolitionist hero Samuel Lucas at the head." (www.publicdomainreview.org)

Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (Classic Reprint)
Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (Classic Reprint)

Author: Frederick Waddy

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780332086255

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Excerpt from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day Meantime brave Shaw usurps the martial plain, And spreads the field with Gallic heaps of slain. The young poet was sent to Cambridge, where in 1825 he won the Chancellor's medal and after another volume of verse, gave the world Falkland, ' his first novel. A large part of this work is made up of letters from one of the characters to another; and the old style of heading, From the same to the same, ' becomes very tedious, as they talk in vapid platitudes, slightly spiced with Byronic morality. The preface is dated March 7, 1827. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901

Author: Mary Elizabeth Leighton

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2012-08-20

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1770483519

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The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, and from narratives of British travelers in Africa and Asia to Havelock Ellis’s theories of “sexual inversion,” the surprising diversity of nineteenth-century nonfiction writing is represented. Illustrations from Victorian periodicals provide a vivid sense of the original reading experience. The book’s thematic organization emphasizes the social and historical contexts of prose writings, as well as the way in which these writings address each other. In addition to a general critical introduction, the anthology features new thematic introductions by experts in the field.

Richard Owen
Richard Owen

Author: Nicolaas Rupke

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-09-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0226731782

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In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin