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Author : J. Redding Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243681167
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by J. Redding Ware and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Redding Ware
Publisher : E.P. Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by James Redding Ware and published by E.P. Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J Redding Ware
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ISBN 13 : 9789354029905
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by J Redding Ware and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : James Redding Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781296491741
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase written by James Redding Ware and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Redding Ware
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295833832
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by James Redding Ware and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : James Redding Ware
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781294988243
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by James Redding Ware and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. Redding Ware
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519497277
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by J. Redding Ware and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new version of the book contains all the original text, including the pages missing or unreadable from other reprints. Most of the obvious errors from the original printing have also been cleaned up. This edition is not a cut and paste job or a collection of inferior scans - it has been lovingly retyped and checked paragraph by paragraph. The aim of this new edition is to make the book a reference work in its own right. Read in its original version, the book can seem a little arcane, with reference to events and people that have been forgotten by anyone but historians, but would be well-known to the educated man of the time. The author assumed that his reader had a fairly classical education and a firm understanding of social and political events, with Victorian history freshly in their minds. His typical reader would be a well-read gentleman with an understanding of Latin and French, and an appreciation for the theatre and good literature. Few modern readers will understand all of the references given in the text of the original book, so this edition has been expanded to make reading it as enjoyable and as enlightening as possible, the aim being to enable understanding without having to look up the people or places mentioned in other books. To this end hundreds of Publisher's Notes have been inserted into and among the original text. Each note gives a brief explanation of obscure words, translates foreign terms, gives a brief biography of people mentioned, or otherwise provides further information for the modern reader. It is hoped that these additions improve the usability of what is already a classic piece of work.
Author : J. Redding Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330681305
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era written by J. Redding Ware and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase Here is a numerically weak collection of instances of 'Passing English'. It may be hoped that there are errors on every page, and also that no entry is 'quite too dull'. Thousands of words and phrases in existence in 1870 have drifted away, or changed their forms, or been absorbed, while as many have been added or are being added. 'Passing English' ripples from countless sources, forming a river of new language which has its tide and its ebb, while its current brings down new ideas and carries away those that have dribbled out of fashion. Not only is 'Passing English' general; it is local; often very seasonably local. Careless etymologists might hold that there are only four divisions of fugitive language in London - west, east, north and south. But the variations are countless. Holborn knows little of Petty Italia behind Hatton Garden, and both these ignore Clerkenwell, which is equally foreign to Islington proper; in the South, Lambeth generally ignores the New Cut, and both look upon Southwark as linguistically out of bounds; while in Central London, Clare Market (disappearing with the nineteenth century) had, if it no longer has, a distinct fashion in words from its great and partially surviving rival through the centuries - the world of Seven Dials, which is in St Gile's - St James's being practically in the next parish. In the East the confusion of languages is a world of 'variants' - there must be half-a-dozen of Anglo-Yiddish alone - all, however, outgrown from the Hebrew stem. 'Passing English' belongs to all the classes, from the peerage class who have always adopted an imperfection in speech or frequency of phrase associated with the court, to the court of the lowest costermonger, who gives the fashion to his immediate entourage. Much passing English becomes obscure almost immediately upon its appearance - such as 'Whoa, Emma!' or 'How's Your poor feet?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191563587
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Author : James Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781985687769
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Passing English of the Victorian Era - Mansplained Edition written by James Ware and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an absolute treasure., an unsung trove of historical information and an indispensable glimpse into life in the Victorian era. This new version of the book contains all the original text, including the pages missing or unreadable from other reprints. Most of the obvious errors from the original printing have been cleaned up, including the confusion over 'Braham the terror' and the mysterious floating '47'. This edition is not a cut and paste job or a collection of inferior scans - it has been lovingly retyped and checked paragraph by paragraph. We've even expanded some of the songs and poems in the original to their full versions, not just a single verse. The aim of this new edition is to make the book a reference book for the Victorian language in its own right. Read in its original version, the book can seem a little arcane, with reference to events and people that have long been forgotten by anyone but historians, but would be well-known to the educated man of the time. The author assumed that his reader had a fairly classical education and a firm understanding of social and political events, with Victorian history freshly in their minds. His typical reader would be a well-read gentleman with an understanding of Latin and French, and an appreciation for the theatre and good literature. Few modern readers will understand all of the references given in the text of this book, so this edition has been greatly expanded to make reading it as enjoyable and as enlightening as possible, the aim being to enable understanding without having to look up the people or places mentioned. To this end hundreds of Publisher's Notes have been inserted into and among the original text. Each note gives a brief explanation of obscure words, translates foreign terms, gives a brief biography of people mentioned, or otherwise provides further information for the modern reader. It is hoped that these additions improve the usability of what is already a classic piece of work.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184832099X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book British Cruisers of the Victorian Era written by Norman Friedman and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be Iris and Mercury of 1875. They were the RN's first steel-built warships; were designed primarily to be steamed rather than sailed; and formed the basis of a line of succeeding cruiser classes. The story ends with the last armoured cruisers, which were succeeded by the first battlecruisers (originally called armoured cruisers), and with the last Third Class Cruisers (Topaze class), all conceived before 1906. Coverage, therefore, dovetails precisely with Friedman's previous book on British cruisers, although this one also includes the wartime experience of the earlier ships.rn The two central themes are cruisers for the fleet and cruisers for overseas operations, including (but not limited to) trade protection. The distant-waters aspect covers the belted cruisers, which were nearly capital ships, intended to deal with foreign second-class battleships in the Far East. The main enemies contemplated during this period were France and Russia, and the book includes British assessments of their strength and intentions, with judgements as to how accurate those assessments were.rn As would be expected of Friedman, the book is deeply researched, original in its analysis, and full of striking insights ÛÒ another major contribution to the history of British warships.
Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958342
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book How to be a Victorian written by Ruth Goodman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen
Author : Simon Wenham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445696607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Hobbs of Henley written by Simon Wenham and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobbs of Henley is not only one of the best-known businesses in Henley-on-Thames. This book is a celebration of this famous Thames boat business.
Author : Simon Heffer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643139185
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book High Minds written by Simon Heffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Age—and the Victorian mind—by a master historian. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people—politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers—who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture collided with broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the "great projects” of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced portrait into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people—and show how the Victorians’ pursuit of perfection gave birth to the modern Britain we know today.
Author : George Elliott
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425040527
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Middlemarch written by George Elliott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience, Middlemarch is a deep psychological observation of human nature that revolves around the issues of love, jealousy, and obligation. Eliot's feminist views are apparent through the novel: she stresses the fact that women should control their own lives.
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015560956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Age in Literature written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842182
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain written by Leah Price and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
