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The City Life
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Walking Jane Austen’s London
From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents nine walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane's footsteps to her publisher's doorstep and the Prince Regent's vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility and accompany her on a shopping expedition – and afterwards to the theatre. In modern London the walker can still visit the church where Lydia Bennett married Wickham, stroll with Elinor Dashwood in Kensington Palace Gardens or imagine they follow Jane's naval officer brothers as they stride down Whitehall to the Admiralty. From well-known landmarks to hidden corners, these walks reveal a lost London that can still come alive in vivid detail for the curious visitor, who will discover eighteenth-century chop houses, elegant squares, sinister prisons, bustling city streets and exclusive gentlemen's clubs amongst innumerable other Austen-esque delights.
Bingley's Indignation
Trouble between friends erupts when Fitzwilliam Darcy informs his friend, Charles Bingley about his complicity in keeping him away from Miss Jane Bennet the previous winter. Darcy, determined to be honest with his friend, never considered the possibility that Bingley, mild-mannered as he was, would hold a grudge. Yet after the argument, Bingley orders Darcy from his home, leaving him no other choice than to return to London, disheartened that his business with Miss Elizabeth Bennet remains unfinished. For Darcy had thought her manner toward him was softening, such that he considered it possible to renew his proposal with some possibility of success. The separation renders Darcy desperate to return to Hertfordshire but having no means to do so, while in Meryton, Miss Elizabeth is equally stunned by Mr. Darcy’s departure and confused he would leave without word. It is only through the welcome meddling of well-meaning relations that Elizabeth and Darcy have a chance to reunite and find their happiness. As for the situation between Darcy and Bingley, that reconciliation may come about by a most unexpected source!
The Early Information Society
Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millennia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination and preservation of information. In `The Early Information Society', the authors argue for an earlier incarnation of the information age, focusing upon the period 1900-1960. In support of this they examine the history and traditions in Britain of two separate but related information-rich occupations - information management and information science - repositioning their origins before the age of the computer and identifying the forces driving their early development. `The Early Information Society' offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the current information society. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field, and for sociologists and historians interested in the information society.
