A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (45 page)

15
Mrs Ellis,
The Daughters of England, Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities
. Fisher, Son & Co., 1845, pp. 162–3.

16
Hughes,
A Victorian Family
, pp. 58–9.

17
Ibid.

18
A. K. H. Boyd,
Twenty-five Years of St Andrews
, Longman’s Green & Co., 1892, vol. I, p. 32.

19
Ibid., p. 165.

20
Ibid., p. 303.

21
Ibid., p. 32.

22
Ibid., p.178.

23
Shepard,
Drawn from Memory
, p. 45–6.

24
Hughes,
A Victorian Family
, pp. 59–61.

25
Seaman,
Victorian England
, p. 21.

26
Wise,
The Diary of William Tayler
, p. 27.

27
Zuzanna Schonfeld,
The Precariously Privileged
. Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 50–1.

28
Edith Buxton,
Reluctant Missionary
. Lutterworth Press, 1968, p. 34.

29
George Augustus Sala,
Twice Round the Clock
. Richard Marsh, London, 1862, pp. 80–1.

30
Norman Grubb,
C. T. Studd. Cricketer and Pioneer
. Religious Tract Society, 1933, pp. 11–12.

31
Ibid., p. 15.

32
Buxton,
Reluctant Missionary
, p. 25.

33
Ibid., p. 29.

1
‘A Member of the Aristocracy’,
Manners and Rules of Good Society
. Frederick Warne & Co., 1908 (thirty-fifth edition; originally published 1888), p. 111.

2
Ibid., p. 19.

3
Ibid.

4
Quoted in E. A. Laborde,
Harrow School, Yesterday and Today
. Winchester Publications, 1948, p. 88.

5
Leila von Meister,
Gathered Yesterdays
. Geoffrey Bles, 1963, p. 139.

6
Ernest H. Shepard,
Drawn from Memory
. Methuen, 1957, p. 46.

7
‘A Member of the Aristocracy’,
Manners and Rules
, p. 20.

8
Ibid., p. 22.

9
Ibid., p. 35.

10
Ibid., p. 34.

11
Mrs Humphrey (‘Madge’ of
Truth
),
Manners for Men
. James Bowden, 1898, p. 94.

12
Punch
, 23 January 1892, p. 42.

13
Florence Howe Hall,
Social Customs
. Estes & Lauriat, 1897, p. 178.

14
Hall,
Social Customs
, p. 175.

15
‘A Member of the Aristocracy’,
Manners and Rules
, p. 228.

16
Hall,
Social Customs
, p. 179.

17
Ibid., p. 181.

18
Dorothy Wise (ed.),
The Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837
. Westminster City Archives/St Marylebone Society, 1998, p. 72.

19
George Augustus Sala,
Twice Round the Clock
. Richard Marsh, London, 1862, pp. 113–14.

1
George Augustus Sala,
Twice Round the Clock
. Richard Marsh, London, 1862, p. 83.

2
Shaw Desmond,
London Nights of Long Ago
. Duckworth, 1927, pp. 50–1.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
Quoted in Trevor Fisher, ‘Britain’s Unpermissive Society’.
History Today
, vol. 42, August 1992, p. 40.

7
Walter Besant, in
Illustrated London News
, Diamond Jubilee number, June 1897, p. 45.

8
L. H. Grindon,
Manchester Banks and Bankers
. David Bogue, 1878, p. 174.

9
Charles Dickens,
Sketches by Boz
. Chapman & Hall, n.d., pp. 123–4.

10
Quoted in Alan Delgado,
The Enormous File: A Social History of the Office
. John Murray, 1979, p. 21.

11
Quoted ibid., p. 43.

12
Quoted ibid., p. 40.

13
Quoted ibid., p. 39.

14
Desmond,
London Nights
, pp.51–3.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.

1
Author’s collection.

2
Jerome K. Jerome,
Three Men in a Boat
. J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, p. 197.

3
The Revd Sabine Baring-Gould, quoted in Charles Quest-Ritson,
The English Garden Abroad
. Viking, 1992, p. 14.

4
Author’s collection.

1
Alan Lee,
The Origins of the Popular Press, 1855–1914
. Croom Helm, 1976, p. 88.

2
Quoted in the
Daily Telegraph
, 10 May 1998.

1
Quoted in H. V. Morton,
A Traveller in Rome
. Methuen & Co., 1957, p. 238.

2
Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
. The Educational Book Company, 1910, p. 152.

3
Shaw Desmond,
London Nights of Long Ago
. Duckworth, 1927, p. 59.

4
Quoted in David Newsome,
The Victorian World Picture
. John Murray, 1997, p. 117.

5
Quoted ibid., p. 116.

6
Letters from B.A.C
., privately printed, London, 1880, pages un-numbered.

7
Walter Besant, in
Illustrated London News
, Diamond Jubilee number, June 1897, p. 41.

8
Punch
, 17 February 1854.

9
Quoted in Henri Troyat,
Tolstoy
, Penguin Books, 1970, p. 165.

10
John Galsworthy,
The Forsyte Saga
, William Heinemann, 1950, p. 486.

11
Winston Churchill,
My Early Life
. Thornton Butterworth, 1930, pp. 88–9.

12
John Whitehead (ed.),
The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling
. Hearthstone Publications, 1995, p. 34.

13
Quoted in Newsome,
The Victorian World Picture
, p. 110.

14
Galsworthy,
The Forsyte Saga
, p. 486.

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Victorian Clerks
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Absent-Minded Beggars
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Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851–75
. Fontana Press, 1985.

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Victorians on the Thames
. Midas Books, 1974.

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. Book Club Associates, 1977.

Davidoff, Leonore,
The Best Circles. Society, Etiquette and the Season
. Croom Helm, 1973.

Delgado, Alan,
The Enormous File. A Social History of the Office
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Dewey, Clive,
The Passing of Barchester
. Hambledon Press, 1991.

Dutton, Ralph,
The Victorian Home
. Bracken Books, 1964.

Erickson, Carolly,
Her Little Majesty
. Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Flanders, Judith,
Consuming Passions. Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
. Harper Press, 2006.

———,
The Victorian House
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Hardy, Alan,
Queen Victoria Was Amused
. John Murray, 1976.

Hart-Davis, Adam,
What the Victorians Did for Us
. Headline, 2001.

Heasman, Kathleen,
Evangelicals in Action
. Geoffrey Bles, 1962.

Hitchmough, Wendy,
The Arts and Crafts Home
. Pavilion, 2000.

Horn, Pamela,
High Society. The English Social Elite, 1880–1914
. Sutton Publishing, 1992.

———,
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant
. Sutton Publishing, 1975.

Hough, Richard,
Victoria and Albert
. Richard Cohen Books, 1996.

Housman, Laurence,
Victoria Regina
. Jonathan Cape, 1937.

Hughes, Molly,
A Victorian Family, 1870–1900
. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990.

Inge, W. R.,
The Victorian Age
. Cambridge University Press, 1922.

Marples, Maurice,
A History of Football
. Secker & Warburg, 1954.

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A Most Desperate Undertaking. The British Army in the Crimea 1854–56
. National Army Museum, 2003.

Metcalf, Priscilla,
Victorian London
. Cassell, 1972.

Money, Tony,
Manly and Muscular Diversions
. Duckworth, 1997.

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1900. The End of an Era
. George Allen & Unwin, 1968.

Newsome, David,
The Victorian World Picture
. John Murray, 1997.

Newton, Charles,
Victorian Designs for the Home
. V & A Publications, 1999.

Nicholson, Shirley,
A Victorian Household
. Barrie and Jenkins, 1988.

Pearson, Geoffrey,
Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears
. Macmillan, 1983.

Price, R. G. G.,
A History of Punch
. Collins, 1957.

St Aubyn, Giles,
Queen Victoria
. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.

Steinbach, Susie,
Women in England 1760–1914: A Social History
. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

Weintraub, Stanley,
Uncrowned King. The Life of Prince Albert
. The Free Press, 1997.

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The Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837
. Westminster City Archives/St Marylebone Society, 1998.

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Fire and Steam
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The Subterranean Railway
. Atlantic Books, 2004.

Acton, Elizabeth
58

advertising
65
,
279–80

Afghanistan
311–12
,
322–3

Albert Edward (‘Bertie’), Prince of Wales
9–10
,
16
,
20
,
22
,
29
,
185
,
217
,
259

Albert Monument
81

Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
7–11

appearance
7
,
8

contributions and influence
8–9
,
10–15
,
18–19

death
20
,
97

diplomacy
20

engagement and marriage ceremony
8

as marriage candidate
7–8

‘model dwellings’
11
,
35–6
,
77

‘Prince Consort’ title
10–11

as reluctant field marshal
19–20

silk top hat
230

unpopularity
9
,
13
,
18
,
20

Victoria Cross
11
,
19
,
317

visit to Harrow School
198

see also
Royal Family

alcohol
43–4
,
47
,
62
,
69

temperance movement
67
,
160

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
1

Alexandra, Princess of Denmark
217

Alfred, Prince
9–10
,
15
,
30

Alice, Princess
9–10
,
15

Anglican Church
157
,
163
,
165
,
166

architecture
161
,
170

and Catholicism (Tractarianism)
158–9
,
160
,
165
,
192

and Church of Scotland
181

and Nonconformists
163–4
,
165
,
166
,
178

apprenticeships
39–40

archery
273

architecture/interior design

artisan dwellings
77–8

Arts and Crafts
79
,
104–8

church
79–80
,
161
,
169–70

Classical/Italianate
71
,
74–6
,
77
,
83
,
88
,
99
,
120

colour
91–2
,
106

early Victorian
77
,
86–9

eclectic
99–101

facilities
97–8

fortress and sanctuary
73–6

Georgian
70–1
,
74
,
86
,
95

Gothic/medieval revival
77–8
,
77–80
,
78–80
,
81–2
,
88–9
,
92

late Victorian
94–6

ornamentation
71–3
,
79
,
87
,
88
,
89–91
,
92–4
,
100–1
,
103
,
105–6
,
108

Queen Anne
72
,
102–3

Regency
71
,
77
,
87
,
89
,
92
,
100

terraces/town houses
74–6
,
82–6
,
98–9

see also
housing

Ariel
(tea-clipper)
129–30

Arnold, Thomas
266
,
277
,
294

Arthur, Prince
9–10

artisan dwellings
77–8

Arts and Crafts movement
79
,
104–8

Australia

imports from
56
,
57–8
,
130

transportation to
50

aviaries
101

Balaclava
314

Balaclava helmet
315