The year that shaped the Victorian age : lives, loves and letters of 1845 / Michael Wheeler.
By: Wheeler, Michael [author.]
.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: xviii, 466 pages : black and white illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781009268851.Subject(s): English letters -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Open letters -- England -- History -- 19th century | Written communication -- England -- History -- 19th century | England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 820.9008 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 820.9008 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021116 |
I. Public scandals -- Opening Mazzini's mail : Sir James Graham and the Post Office -- The railway juggernaut : Delane, Dickens and the press -- Poor Law Bastille : the Andover workshouse scandal -- II. Private lives -- Love by post : Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning -- Letters from the continent : Ruskin in Italy -- Letters of the living and the dead : Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle -- III. Oxford movements -- Established church in crisis : William George Ward and the Oxford movement -- A dangerous correspondence : Newman on the road to Rome -- IV. Irish questions -- Educating papist priests : Gladstone and the Maynooth Grant -- The condition of Ireland : Daniel O'Connell and Thomas Campbell Foster -- A prime minister resigns : Peel and the Corn Laws.