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142 Strand by Rosemary Ashton
Category: History
142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's ...Show more
142 The Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London by Rosemary Ashton
Category: History
"142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's ...Show more
George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton
Category: Biography Memoir
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in t ...Show more
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
Category: History
A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "The Great Stink" together While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, th ...Show more
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
Category: History
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little re ...Show more
Silas Marner by George Eliot; Rosemary Ashton (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The perfect companion toThe Mill on the Floss andMiddlemarch, both published in Alma Classics' Evergreens series,Silas Marner portrays a changing society with realism. Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives alone in ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; Rosemary Ashton (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George EliotIf life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie? Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into ...Show more
VICTORIAN BLOOMSBURY by ASHTON ROSEMARY
Category: History
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the e ...Show more
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