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The year that shaped the Victorian age : lives, loves and letters of 1845
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- Creator
- Michael Wheeler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 466 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781009268868, 1009268864, 9781009268851, 9781009268837, 9781009268851
- OCLC
- on1333688516
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Public scandals. Opening Mazzini's mail: Sir James Graham and the Post Office -- The railway juggernaut: Delane, Dickens and the press -- Poor law bastille: the Andover workhouse scandal -- Private lives. Love by post: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning -- Letters from the continent: Ruskin in Italy -- Letters of the living and the dead: Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle -- Oxford movements. Established church in crisis: William George Ward and the Oxford Movement -- A dangerous correspondence: Newman on the road to Rome -- Irish questions. Educating papist priests: Gladstone and the Maynooth grant -- From our own Commissioner: Daniel O'Connell and The Times -- A prime minister resigns: Peel and the Corn Laws