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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Gone to the shops	Kelley Graham	Explores the bustling world of Victorian shops and shopping, and the growing consumerism that bloomed during these times.	OL12947436W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
Martin Chuzzlewit	Charles Dickens	The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out f…	OL14869242W
The church	Virginia Schomp	"Describes the role of religion in the lives of Victorians, including how it influenced the way they lived, how they observed special occasions, and how they coped with the many changes and challenge…	OL15039631W
St. John and the Victorians	Wheeler, Michael	"The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical sc…	OL16015117W
Novel histories	Lisa Kasmer	Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape b…	OL16298907W
Sisters of Fortune	Jehanne Wake	Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of I…	OL16810184W
Liberating medicine, 1720-1835	Tristanne J. Connolly,Clark, S. H.	"During the eighteenth century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack 'bar…	OL16939783W
The age of hypochondria	George C. Grinnell	"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of th…	OL18347899W
An Elegant Madness	Venetia Murray	The Regency aristocracy lived through one of the most romantic and turbulent ages in British history, an era that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented i…	OL1932212W
Dirty old London	Lee Jackson	"In Victorian London, filth was everywhere : horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpse…	OL19666380W
Wild romance	Chloë Schama	"In 1852, on a steamer from France to England, Theresa Longworth met William Charles Yelverton, a soldier destined to become the Viscount of Avonmore. The flirtation soon blossomed into an affair and…	OL20940533W
What the Victorians threw away	Tom Licence	"In this highly readable little book Tom Licence reveals how everyday objects, dug from the ground, contribute to the bigger story of how our great grandparents built a throwaway society from the twi…	OL22315005W
Visitors	Rupert Christiansen	"London in 1820 was a city of extraordinary creative dynamism and big money. Rupert Christiansen has marshaled the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England, chronicling their im…	OL2448869W
The Holland Park circle	Caroline Dakers	A major study of the Holland Park Circle, this is both a narrative of the lives, works and influence of the artists, architects and their patrons and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships…	OL37430W
The London police in the nineteenth century	Wilkes, John	Describes the establishment of the Metropolitan Police force by Sir Robert Peel, the principles on which it operated, the recruitment and working conditions throughout the nineteenth century, and pub…	OL4537638W
Women And Children Last	Charles R. Clark	"Each year hundreds of ships were lost on rock-bound coasts or in the deep oceans. But of all the ways a ship might meet her end, destruction by fire was perhaps the most feared. The New Zealand-boun…	OL4638853W
The knight and the umbrella	Ian Anstruther	The Earl of Eglinton, rich, spoilt and only 26 years old, egged on by his stepfather who had been done out of a job by the Whig Government’s decision to remove practically all ceremony from Queen Vi…	OL4780079W
Great tales from English history	Robert Lacey	With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England--from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughm…	OL491643W
At her majesty's request	Walter Dean Myers	Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.	OL98244W