Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture

Literature and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Sanitation, intestinal infections, and infant mortality in late Victorian Sydney.

FROM THE viewpoint of community health, the history of the Victorian city in Britain can be regarded as the history of "fever", especially typhoid fever.' The same can properly be said of Victorian Sydney. The introduction of adequate sanitation of the city's environment was an important step in the control of the intestinal infections and the high mortality they produced in infants. Sydney was...

The Gentleman Artist-Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

Privileged communications: medical confidentiality in late Victorian Britain.

But at the turn of the century a number of court cases brought home to British doctors the fact that there were no hard and fast rules governing disclosure. Some in the profession argued that since medical colleagues in Europe and parts of North America had the legal right to defend the secrecy of their "privileged communications", British doctors' reputations would suffer if they did not win t...