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Victorian People and Ideas
Life in the Victorian period, focusing on the social, religious, scientific, and artistic movements that characterized the age.
The Shows of London
History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
Deadly Encounters
In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, narrating events in a style worthy of a popular novelist, and including lengthy passages of testimony. Not only did they report rumor as well as what seemed to be fact, they speculated about the credibility of witnesses, assessed character, and decided guilt. The public was enthralled. Richard D. Altic...
Victorian People and Ideas
The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitude, but it is now higher than ever. In this important new study, Richard D. Altick, moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily struggling to solve. And the issues were many. Altick brings to the discussion of these complicated questions the lively and sensitive intelligence that his many readers have come to expect. He includes contemporary illustrations and a full reference index.
