Wheeler, Michael,  1947- <br/><br/>
The year that shaped the Victorian age :  lives, loves and letters of 1845 / 
Michael Wheeler. 
 - xviii, 466 pages :  black and white illustrations 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781009268851 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC2J5963  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020791245  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English letters--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Open letters--History--England--19th century.<br/>Written communication--History--England--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England--Intellectual life--19th century.<br/>Great Britain--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9008