The Maclise Portrait-gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters
The Maclise Portrait-gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters

Author: Daniel Maclise

Publisher:

Published: 1898

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13:

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The "Fraserians" -- William Jerdan -- Thomas Campbell -- John Gibson Lockhart -- Samuel Rogers -- Thomas Moore -- Sire Walter Scott -- John Galt -- William Maginn, "The Doctor" -- Crofton Croker -- Mrs. Nelson -- John Wilson -- Mary Russell Mitford -- Don Telesforo de Trueba Y Cozio -- Earl of Munster -- Lord John Russell -- Right Hon. John Wilson Croker -- Tydus-Pooh-Pooh -- Washington Irving -- The Lord Brougham and Vaux -- Robert Montgomery -- James Hogg -- The Baron von Goethe -- Isaac D'Israeli -- The Antiquaries -- Louis Eustache Ude -- Reverend Doctor Lardner -- Edward Lytton Bulwer -- Allan Cunningham -- William Wordsworth -- Sir David Brewster -- William Roscoe -- Prince de Talleyrand -- James Morier -- Countess of Blessington -- "The Tiger" -- Benjamin D'Israeli -- Thomas Carlyle -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- George Cruikshank -- Dr. Moir -- Miss Landon -- Miss Harriet Martineau -- Grant Thorburn -- Captain Ross -- Sir Egerton Brydges -- Daniel O'Connell and Richard Lalor Shiel -- Theodore E. Hook -- Charles Molloy Westmacott -- Leigh Hunt -- William Harrison Ainsworth -- Thomas Hill -- Rev. George Robert Gleig -- William Godwin -- James Smith -- Comte D'Orsay -- Charles Lamb -- Pierre-Jean de Béranger -- Miss Jane Porter -- Lady Morgan -- Mr. Alaric Attila Watts -- Lord Francis Egerton -- Henry O'Brien -- Michael Thomas Sadler -- Earl of Mulgrave -- William Cobbett -- Francis Place -- Robert Macnish -- Regina's Maids of Honour -- Michael Faraday -- Rev. William Lisle Bowles -- Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Sir John C. Hobhouse -- Mr. Serjeant Talfourd -- Sir John Soane -- Lord Lyndhurst -- Sheridan Knowles -- Edmund Lodge -- John Baldwin Buckstone -- Sir William Molesworth -- Rev. Sydney Smith -- Henry Hallam -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Daniel Maclise, R.A. -- Rev. Francis Mahony ("Father Prout").

Pictures of Poverty
Pictures of Poverty

Author: Lydia Jakobs

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0861969863

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From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief.

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews
Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews

Author: Brian Tyson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0271027819

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These hitherto uncollected book reviews of Shaw--his first journalistic efforts--reveal much not only about the writer but also the culture of the time in which he lived. Between 1885 and 1888, Bernard Shaw published 111 book reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette. In spite of their importance as the first regular journalism Shaw wrote and the fact that the books (fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry) he read during these years must have formed the nucleus of his permanent library, the reviews have never before been analyzed in connection with Shaw's work. Brian Tyson has assembled the book reviews, complete with the books' titles, authors, and a brief biography of each author, including any comments Shaw made about the review, and has placed them in historical context, elucidating any interesting, difficult, or obscure references. Tyson's critical introduction places the reviews in the context of Shaw's work and Victorian society. The reviews are often characterized by the wit and brilliance that we associate with the later Shaw, shedding light on his development as a writer at his most formative stage. Regardless of the merits of the material Shaw was reviewing, it is amusing and enlightening to follow him down to the wandering tributaries of Late Victorian fiction and poetry, which reveal as much about Shaw as they do about the preoccupations and prejudices of the average reader of the day.