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Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were recorded in the 1851 census as practising a profession in eight British provincial towns with distinctive economic and social profiles: Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Winchester, and the twin county town of Northumberland, Alnwick/Morpeth. The book provides a collective account of the cohort's lives and the lives of their families across four generations, starting with their parents and ending with ...
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The book "Sarah Ann Dobbs" describes the extraordinary life of a Victorian lady told by her autograph Album. Over 150 years old, the autograph Album of Sarah Dobbs containing beautifully handwritten poems, dating from 1862 to 1871, is a remarkable and fascinating document of the Victorian age. By steamship it made its way from Wales, UK, to the USA around 1868 as its owner Sarah Dobbs immigrated as one of the early pioneers to Kansas, USA. This book contains all Album entries, for better reading they were transcribed and where possible identified. The author also added a genealogy research, underlined by newspaper articles which were all transcribed, of Sarah Dobbs, her family and the family of her husband Henry Poolly Cooper. Before their immigration to the USA both of them lived in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Sarah Dobbs as innkeeper daughter of the White Hart Inn, Beaufort Square, Chepstow, Wales, UK.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.