The Victorian home

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

The home office and the dangerous trades. Regulating occupational disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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Review of The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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Victorian Values and Women in Public and Private

THE theme of this paper1 is the Victorian ideological divide between the public sphere (viewed as a masculine domain concerned with paid work and national politics), and the private sphere (viewed as a female domain concerned with home and family). These contrasts were in some respects ancient ones: the political dimension of public masculine persons and private female persons going back at lea...

Career development: domestic display as imperial, anthropological, and social trophy.

Analyzing the dynamics of collection and display in the colonial context, this essay considers the South Asian artifacts collected by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1894-1904. Temple exhibited the teak carvings, body adornments, and hunting tools that he amassed throughout his career in his home, The Nash, which became the foundation of his...

The dark angel. Aspects of Victorian sexuality

but it also had many shortcomings and variations. These are all discussed in an absorbing story, illustrated profusely with contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, etc. The country, provincial, and city home, and that of the rich and poor are described, and throughout there is extensive reference to contemporary literature, mainly Dickens, Eliot, the Brontes, Trollope, and Gaskell. Child...