The Portable Victorian Reader (Viking Portable Library)

A Collection Of The Most Notable Prose Writings Of The Time Of Queen Victoria. Includes A Biographical List Of Authors. An Address To King William / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Old England Before The Reform Bill / George Eliot -- Lord Monmouth After The Reform Bill / Benjamin Disraeli -- Victoria Becomes Queen / Queen Victoria -- Count D'orsay Calls On Mrs. Carlyle / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- The Two Nations / Benjamin Disraeli -- Unworking Aristocracy / Thomas Carlyle -- The New Generation / Benjamin Disraeli -- The Dedlocks / Charles Dickens -- Queen Victoria's Jubilee / The Times -- The Condition Of England / Thomas Carlyle -- A Liberal Landlord / George Eliot -- Slums In Manchester / Friedrich Engels -- Child Labor In The Mines / Friedrich Engels -- The Rural Town Of Marney / Benjamin Disraeli / The Men Who Are Eaten / Charles Kingsley -- A Village Workhouse In 1830 / Friedrich Engels -- A London Workhouse In 1850 / Charles Dickens -- A Watercress Girl / Henry Mayhew -- Fever In Manchester / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- Mrs. Pardiggle Visits The Brickmakers / Charles Dickens --^ Cheap Clothes And Nasty / Charles Kingsley -- Dodson Protestantism / George Eliot -- The Veneerings / Charles Dickens -- Podsnappery / Charles Dickens -- Millbank / Benjamin Disraeli -- Captains Of Industry / Thomas Carlyle -- The Railway Mania / Samuel Smiles -- A Lucky Speculator / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Mr. Bounderby / Charles Dickens -- Traffic / John Ruskin -- Sweetness And Light / Matthew Arnold -- Barbarians, Philistines, Populace / Matthew Arnold -- Representatives For London / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Passage Of The First Reform Bill / The Times -- Polling In The Midlands, 1832 George Eliot -- The Six Points / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Working Aristocracy / Thomas Carlyle -- Women And Children In The Mines / Harriet Martineau -- The Ten-hours Bill / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Labor Laws And The Clergy / Karl Marx -- Collective Bargaining / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- A Visit To Newgate / Charles Dickens --^ Origins Of The Slave Trade / William Edward Hartpole Lecky -- Abolition In The British Colonies / The Times -- First Sight Of Slavery In 1834 / Harriet Martineau -- Slavery At Richmond In 1842 / Charles Dickens -- Letters From Washington In 1853 / William Makepeace Thackeray -- A Letter From Savannah In 1858 / Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon -- The Roots Of Honour / John Ruskin -- Incentive In A Communist Society / William Morris -- Evangelicalism At Milby In 1830 / George Eliot -- A Word On The May-meetings / Punch -- Mr. Brocklehurst's Catechism / Charlotte Bronte -- The Sabbath Laws / Charles Dickens -- Bishop Proudie's Chaplain, Mr. Slope / Anthony Trollope -- Mrs. Proudie On Sabbath Travelling / Anthony Trollope -- The Simeonites In 1858 / Samuel Butler -- My Religious Opinions To The Year 1833 / John Henry Newman -- Tract 90 / John Henry Newman -- Newman's Preaching At St. Mary's / Matthew Arnold -- Rugby Chapel / Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -- The Everlasting Yea / Thomas Carlyle --^ The Hero As Divinity / Thomas Carlyle -- The Higher Criticism / David Friedrich Strauss -- Is Genesis True? / John William Colenso -- Ignorance Of The Working Class / Fredrick Engels -- Lowood: A Charity School / Charlotte Bronte -- Dotheboys Hall: A Yorkshire School / Charles Dickens -- Dr. Blimber's Academy: Forcing / Charles Dickens -- A Clerical Tutor / George Eliot -- Nothing But Facts / Charles Dickens -- Home Education / John Stuart Mill -- Fooptball At Rugby / Thomas Hughes -- Friendship Tested / Thomas Hughes -- The True University / Thomas Carlyle -- Knowledge Its Own End / John Henry Newman -- A Definition Of A Gentleman / John Henry Newman -- Oxford, The Home Of Lost Causes / Matthew Arnold -- A Liberal Education / Thomas Henry Huxley -- The Colleges Of Unreason / Samuel Butler -- Science And Culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Literature And Science / Matthew Arnold -- Man In The Geological Record / Charles Lyell -- The Origin Of The Animated Tribes / Robert Chambers --^ Special Creation Or Modification? / Herbert Spencer -- The Struggle Of Existence / Charles Darwin -- Protoplasm, The Physical Basis Of Life / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Prince Albert's Triumph / Queen Victoria -- Punch Attends The Opening / William Makepeace Thackeray -- From Liverpool To Manchester In 1830 / Samuel Smiles -- The Book Of The Machines / Samuel Butler -- Charlotte Corday / Thomas Carlyle -- The Stars And Strips / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The Pre-raphaelites / David Masson -- Characteristics Of Gothic Architecture / John Ruskin -- The Love Of Clouds / John Ruskin -- The Pathetic Fallacy / John Ruskin Realism / George Eliot -- The Function Of Criticism / Matthew Arnold -- The Mona Lisa / Walter Pater -- Art For Arts Sake / Walter Pater -- Style / Walter Pater -- Degas / George Moore -- The Critic As Artist / Oscar Wilde Edited With An Introd. By Gordon S. Haight. Bibliography: P. Xlvi.