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Victorian Country Life

Victorian Country Life
Author: Janet Sacks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0747812640

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During the reign of Queen Victoria, industrialisation changed every aspect of rural life. Industrial diversification led to a decline in agriculture and mass migration from country to town and city – in 1851 half the population lived in the countryside, but by 1901 only a quarter did so. This book outlines the changes and why they occurred. It paints a picture of country life as it was when Victoria came to the throne and shows how a recognisably modern version of the British countryside had established itself by the end of her reign. Cheap food from overseas meant that Britain was no longer self-sufficient but it freed up money to be spent on other goods: village industries and handcrafts were undercut by the new industrial technology that brought about mass production, and markets were replaced by shops that grew into department stores.


Rural Life in Victorian England

Rural Life in Victorian England
Author: G. E. Mingay
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1998
Genre: England
ISBN:

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During Victoria's reign the English countryside underwent rapid and far-reaching changes. This book offers a portrait of rural England at that time, concentrating on how the changes affected the people who lived there.


The Rural Life of England

The Rural Life of England
Author: William Howitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1838
Genre: Country life
ISBN:

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Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England

Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England
Author: Rachel Worth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1786733455

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In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the particular pattern of survival and collection by museums of garments of rural provenance. Rachel Worth explores ways in which clothing and how it is represented throws light on wider social and cultural aspects of society, as well as how 'traditional' styles of dress, like men's smock-frocks or women's sun-bonnets, came to be replaced by 'fashion'. Her compelling study, with black & white and colour illustrations, both adds a broader dimension to the history of dress by considering it within the social and cultural context of its time and discusses how clothing enriches our understanding of the social history of the Victorian period.


The Victorian Countryside

The Victorian Countryside
Author: G. E. Mingay
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415241953

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Countryside

The Countryside
Author: Virginia Schomp
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2011
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9781608700301

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This series of books explores what is perhaps the most dynamic era in the history of England.


Dickens's England

Dickens's England
Author: R. E. Pritchard
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752475541

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Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's characters with whom we are so familiar - orphan Oliver and cunning Fagin, snobbish Pip, spendthrift Mr Micawber, pompous Podsnap and humourless Gradgrind - grow out of his own observation. Here, Dickens and his great contemporaries - John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy - take us into the heart of what Elizabeth Barrett Browning called 'this live, throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires'. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to understand more about the world of our great novelist Charles Dickens.


The Demography of Victorian England and Wales

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales
Author: Robert Woods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2000-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521782548

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The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancy. But Robert Woods also considers the variable quality of the Victorian registration system; the changing role of what Robert Malthus termed the preventive check; variations in occupational mortality and the development of the twentieth-century class mortality gradient; and the effects of urbanisation associated with the significance of distinctive disease environments. The volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areas. This invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colour.


London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor
Author: Henry Mayhew
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1605207330

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Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*


Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England
Author: Nicola Verdon
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851159065

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The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.