Life Below Stairs: In the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
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The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just...
Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Portable Paradise: Baedeker, Murray and the Victorian Guidebook
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Jonathan Keates's passion for collecting historic guidebooks has resulted in a beguiling work of...
Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume,...
Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives
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Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a...
The Early Victorian Railway Excursions: The Million Go Forth
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There is a widely held belief that Thomas Cook invented the railway excursion. In fact the railway...
Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home
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"As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is hardly possible to imagine: the doctors were bitten...
Domestic Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns
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In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities....
The Victorian Master Criminal: Charles Peace and the Murders of Cock and Dyson
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On 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking 'the...