The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1829-1847
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1829-1847

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780198185970

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Despite Charlotte Brontë's entreaty to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey to burn her correspondence, very little seems to have been destroyed, and in this fully annotated edition, based as far as possible on original manuscripts, many confidential and outspoken letters are published in full for the first time. As well as Charlotte's own letters from 1829 to 1847, a handful of important letters and diary extracts by her friends and family illuminate the writer's correspondence. This volume covers the period from her childhood up to the publication and review of Jane Eyre.

On the Move
On the Move

Author: Chris Wrigley

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781852850609

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The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860
The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860

Author: Robert Gray

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521892926

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The Factory Question and Industrial England addresses the continuing controversy over industrialisation. It investigates different perceptions of the 'factory system' either as a threat or a promise, and the contested meanings of waged work in industry. Making use of a great variety of sources, such as sermons, medical treatises, fictional and visual representations, Robert Gray places the languages of debate in their cultural contexts, paying particular attention to the shifting constructions of class and gender in the rhetoric of reform, and the ambiguities and tensions inherent in 'protective' legislation. He then relates patterns of conflict over factory legislation to the features of specific industrial towns. The combination of regional, cultural and textual analysis makes this book a coherent and original contribution to the study of industrial Britain in the nineteenth century.

Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England

Author: Tim Thornton

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781843832591

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Thornton also sheds light on areas where popular culture and politics were uneasily interlinked: the powerful political influence of those outside elite groups; the variations in political culture across the country; and the considerable continuing power of mystical, supernatural, and 'non-rational' ideas in British social and political life into the nineteenth century."--Jacket.

Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870
Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870

Author: Hilary Marland

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1987-09-24

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780521325752

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This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities. By drawing on diverse sources: from Poor Law and philanthropy to self-help organisations, fringe medicine and medical practice, the book places the development of medical services against the backdrop of the communities in which they evolved, their class structure, organization and social, civic and economic developments.