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19th Century Britain

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• Britain
  • Radicalism
  • Liberal Reformism
    • The State
    • The Professions
    • The Poor
    • Men, Women, and Sex
  • Social Class
• Ireland
• Victorian Sensibility
• Victorian Literature

• WEB The Victorian Web
  Texts and information about mid and late 19th century England.
• WEB Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 [At Internet Archive, from Virginia]
  A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
• Radicalism
  • The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At this Site]
  • Samuel Bamford (1788-1872): Passages in the Life of a Radical-on the Peterloo Massacre, 1819  [At this Site]
  • WEB The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk]
  • Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838, excerpts [At this Site]
• Liberal Reformism
  • The State
    • Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Fallacies of Anti-Reformers, 1824 [At this Site]
    • Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Speech On The Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831  [At this Site]
    • Contemporary Views on the Reform Act, 1832 [At Spartacus]
  • The Professions
    • Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Bad Lawyers or Good , excerpt. 1876 [At Warwick]
      A consideration of the need for the reform of legal education and the legal profession in England and Wales.
    • Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): A New Standard of Value, The Economist, November 20, 1875 [At McMaster]
    • Walter Bagehot  (1826-1877): Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. [At McMaster]
      A classic analysis of the British banking system which was the basis for reform for many other European banking systems.
  • The Poor
    • WEB History of Social Security in Britain [At Internet Archive, from dss.uk]
    • 2ND William P. Quigley: Five Hundred Years of English Poor Laws, 1349-1834: Regulating the Working and Nonworking Poor [At Univ. Akron]
  • Men, Women, and Sex
    • Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854 [At Victorian Women Writers Project]
    • Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855 [At Victorian Women Writers Project]
    • WEB Florence Nightingale: Selected Correspondence
• Social Class
  • Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882  [At this Site]
  • Thomas Escott (1844-1924): England: Her People, Polity, and Pursuits, 1885  [At this Site]
  • Jack London: The People of the Abyss: Whitechapel in 1902  [At this Site]

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Ireland

• WEB Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850 [At Internet Archive, from Virginia]
  A large collection of online original texts from Ireland, England, and America on the Irish Famine. Includes a great deal on emigration to America.
• WEB Views of the Famine in Ireland [At Vassar]
• WEB The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive [At Virginia]
  Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work -- from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms.
• WEB Irish Passenger Lists [At Internet Archive, from geneology.org]

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• WEB Domestic Life in 19th Century England [At Internet Archive, from U Washington]
• WEB Penny Magazine [At Rochester]
  The text of a magazine directed at the English working class in the 1830s.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): The Charge of the Light Brigade, c.1880 [At this Site]

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Victorian Literature

• WEB A Regency Repositry
  Texts and information about early 19th century England.
• WEB Literature of the Victorian Period [At ACCD]
  Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works when online.
• WEB 19th Century British and Irish Authors [At Nagoya]
  Splendid online guide to texts and sites on 19th century authors
• WEB Victorian Women Writers Project Library
• WEB The Gaskell Page [At Nagoya]
  A Comprehensive web page dedicated to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). It includes ALL of Mrs. Gaskell's writings as etexts, as well as a lot of ancillary material about 19th-century England.