A carefully selected collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. A variety of texts make up each of the four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. The collection includes texts by Isabella Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain and Jules Verne.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Adventures; The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley; Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne; How to Reach the Pole, article from The Graphic; Messages Without Wires, Guglielmo Marconi; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird; The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells; Activities; 2. Childhood; The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; Ragged Schools, article from The Illustrated London News; A London Child of the Seventies, Molly Vivian Hughes; A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce; War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy; Activities; 3. Urbanisation: Children in the Coal Mines: The 1842 Report, R. H. Horne; The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Narrative of a Pickpocket, Henry Mayhew; Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood; Mary Barton, Mrs Gaskell; The Disturbance in the Manufacturing Districts, article from The Illustrated London News; 1851 or the Adventures of Mr & Mrs Sandboys, Henry Mayhew; Bleak House, Charles Dickens; Activities; 4. Relationships: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens; The Son's Veto, Thomas Hardy; Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Bodichon; The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope; Definition of a Gentleman, John Henry Newman; Adam Bede, George Eliot; The Book of Household Management, Mrs Isabella Beeton; My Rights, Susan Coolidge; A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen; Activities; Notes on authors.