Life in Victorian Preston
Title | Life in Victorian Preston PDF eBook |
Author | David John Hindle |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445619210 |
Exploring the social and cultural history of Preston.
Victorian Preston & the Whittingham Hospital Railway
Title | Victorian Preston & the Whittingham Hospital Railway PDF eBook |
Author | David John Hindle |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2012-09-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 144562432X |
The book incorporates a brief social history of Preston and Whittingham Hospital as a lead into the establishment of the Whittingham Hospital Railway.
History of Preston
Title | History of Preston PDF eBook |
Author | Atticus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Queer Victorian Families
Title | Queer Victorian Families PDF eBook |
Author | Duc Dau |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317647068 |
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
A History of Preston
Title | A History of Preston PDF eBook |
Author | David Hunt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Preston (England) |
ISBN |
The Less Noble Sex
Title | The Less Noble Sex PDF eBook |
Author | M. Jeanne Peterson |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1989-05-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253208309 |
Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life—these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and the received wisdom they embody in favor of a careful examination of Victorian ladies and their lives. Focusing on a network of urban professional families over three generations, this book examines the scope and quality of gentlewomen's education, their physical lives, their relationship to money, their experience of family illness and death, and their relationships to men (brothers and friends as well as fathers and husbands). Peterson also examines the prominent place of work in the lives of these "leisured" Victorian ladies, both single and married. Far from idle, the mothers, wives, and daughters of Victorian clergymen, doctors, lawyers, university dons, and others were accomplished and productive members of society who made substantial public and private contributions to virtually every sphere of Victorian life.
Preston Court Leet Records
Title | Preston Court Leet Records PDF eBook |
Author | Preston (Lancashire, England). Court Leet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Court records |
ISBN |