Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Philip Larkin | This volume includes the highly characteristic Wants, a two-stanza poem with two refrains: Beyond all this, the wish to be alone, and Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs. Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003. 52 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | Self-Education looks at the shortcomings of current school systems for both poor and privileged children. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. “Self-Education”. The Westminster Review, Vol. 64 , John Chapman, July 1855, pp. 73-94. 63 (July 1855): 39-41 |
Literary Setting | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Despite Jewsbury's comment, this is a particularly strong novel, which focuses on the position of women through character development and interior lives, although narration rather than dialogic showing is still the dominant technique. Nor is... |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's theatre career peaked with her run at the Surrey Theatre
, London, in pieces like J. B. Johnstone
's The Sailor of France and How We Live in the World of London... |
Textual Features | Michèle Roberts | In the earlier period of the novel, Joseph Benson takes a philanthropic interest in fallen women, and helps Henry Mayhew
in the research for his ground-breaking London Labour and the London Poor, published in... |
Textual Features | Isa Craig | IC
's article has a documentary feel typical of much social investigation literature, particularly the seamstress narrative popularized by writers such as Thomas Hood
, Henry Mayhew
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
in her novel Ruth... |
Timeline
13 May 1848: Henry and Augustus Mayhew published the satiric...
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13 May 1848
Henry
and Augustus Mayhew
published the satiric novel Whom to Marry and How to Get Married—it included the author credit By one who has refused twenty excellent offers at least.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
55
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1072 (13 May 1848): 481-2
October 1848-December 1850: Henry Mayhew's eighty-two letters to the...
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October 1848-December 1850
Henry Mayhew
's eighty-two letters to the Morning Chronicle painted a powerful portrait of working-class life and reported widespread prostitution among female slopworkers.
Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920. Oxford University Press, 1991.
66
December 1850-February 1852: Henry Mayhew serially published London Labour...
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December 1850-February 1852
Henry Mayhew
serially published London Labour and the London Poor.
Humphreys, Anne. Henry Mayhew. Twayne, 1984.
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1862: Henry Mayhew published The Criminal Prisons...
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1862
Henry Mayhew
published The Criminal Prisons of London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
634
1874: Henry Mayhew, well known for his journalism...
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1874
Henry Mayhew
, well known for his journalism on the British lower classes, published London Characters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Texts
Mayhew, Henry, and Sir William Schwenck Gilbert. London Characters. Chatto and Windus, 1874.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. G. Woodfall, 1851, 3 vols.
Mayhew, Henry, and John Binney. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life. Griffin, Bohn, 1862.
Cruikshank, George. Whom to Marry and How to Get Married. Editors Mayhew, Henry and Augustus Mayhew, David Bogue, 1848.