Richard Altick

In the LRB Archive:

• Street-Wise · 29 October 1987

  • George Scharf’s London: Sketches and Watercolours of a Changing City, 1820-50 by Peter Jackson

• Possibility throbs · 23 July 1987

  • Palais-Royal by Richard Sennett

• All in pawn · 19 June 1986

  • The Common Writer: Life in 19th-century Grub Street by Nigel Cross

• Behind the Veil · 6 March 1986

  • The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim

• Fuming · 19 July 1984

  • Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
  • Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
  • A Carlyle Reader edited by G.B. Tennyson

• Trollope’s Delight · 3 May 1984

  • The Letters of Anthony Trollope edited by John Hall
  • Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art by Andrew Wright

• Mutual Friend · 22 December 1983

  • Lewis and Lewis by John Juxon

• Dearest Papa · 1 September 1983

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin edited by George Allan Cate
  • Ruskin Today by Kenneth Clark
  • John Ruskin: Letters from the Continent 1858 edited by John Hayman

• The Old Corrector · 4 November 1982

  • Fortune and Men’s Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier by Dewey Ganzel

• Faces of the People · 19 August 1982

  • Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler
  • A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th-century Paris by Judith Wechsler

• Saint John Henry · 5 August 1982

  • John Henry Newman: His Life and Work by Brian Martin
  • Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England by Walter Arnstein

• Magnanimity · 3 December 1981

  • The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman by Mark Girouard

• Out of the Closet · 20 August 1981

  • The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British Library by Patrick Kearney

• Pity the monsters · 18 December 1980

  • The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
  • The Elephant Man: the Book of the Film by Joy Kuhn
  • The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
  • The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves
  • The Elephant Man and Other Freaks by Sian Richards
  • The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell and Peter Ford

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