A Victorian Master
Author: Frederic Leighton Baron Leighton of Stretton
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Victorian Dream Homes
Author: Home Planners, inc
Publisher: Home Planners, LLC
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781881955726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes sections for each style: Gothic Revival, reminiscent of Britain's Middle Ages; Italianate and Second Empire, reminiscent of rural Italy and France; Victorian; and Victorian-influenced farmhouse.
Master of His Fate
Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1250187397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his days working at his father’s market stall, is determined to become a merchant prince. Even as a child, he is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. James quickly rises through the ranks, proving himself both hardworking and trustworthy, and catching the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. But when threats against his reputation – and his life - begin to emerge, James will have to prove that he truly is the master of his fate. Through scandal and romance, tragedy and triumph, the Falconer and Malvern family’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways in this expansive and intricately detailed new novel filled with drama, intrigue, and Bradford's trademark cast of compelling characters.
Mesters to Masters
Author: Clyde Binfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780198289975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounded in 1624, the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire has played a crucial role in the history of Sheffield, as supervisor and regulator of cutlery and steel trades in "the steel capital of the world." This book, written by noted scholars and experts, provides a history of the company and its activities.
A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-10-27
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0691159548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Who's Master? Who's Man?
Author: Michael Cannon
Publisher: [Melbourne : Thomas] Nelson [(Australia)
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of Victorian era in Australia; brief mention throughout of Aborigines in early settlements.
The Victorian Statutes
Author: Victoria
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing
Author: J. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0230554733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking Hegel's famous " Master-Slave Dialectic " as its starting point, this wide-ranging book examines portrayals of masters, slaves and servants in works by Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Collins and others. The questions raised about modern mastery and slavery are pursued in relation to intriguing nineteenth-century figures as the American slave-holder, the musician, the demagogue and the Jew.
The Victorian Master Criminal
Author: David C Hanrahan
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-06-06
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0750968931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking ‘the beat’ at Whalley Range, Manchester. A few months later, on the evening of 29 November 1876, Arthur Dyson, an engineer, was murdered in his own backyard at Banner Cross, Sheffield. Charles Peace was Victorian Britain’s most infamous cat burglar and murderer. He was a complex character: ruthless, devious, dangerous, charming, intelligent and creative. Mrs Katherine Dyson identified him as the murderer of her husband, and as the police searched the country for him, Peace was living a life of luxury under another identity in London.One of these murders became the most notorious and scandalous case of the Victorian age, with a tale of illicit romance and a nationwide hunt for Britain’s most wanted man; the other was to become a landmark in British legal history. Although no one suspected a link between them, these two sensational murder cases would, in the end, turn out to be tied together in a way that shocked Victorian society to its core.
