Old Verities
Brian Harrison, 19 June 1986
The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form 1832-1867
by Catherine Gallagher.
Chicago, 320 pp., £23.25, September 1985,0 226 27932 4 Show More
by Catherine Gallagher.
Chicago, 320 pp., £23.25, September 1985,
Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography 1830-1914
by Philip Priestley.
Methuen, 311 pp., £14.85, October 1985,0 416 34770 3 Show More
by Philip Priestley.
Methuen, 311 pp., £14.85, October 1985,
The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers and Vivisection in Edwardian England
by Coral Lansbury.
University of Wisconsin Press, 212 pp., £23.50, November 1985,0 299 10250 5 Show More
by Coral Lansbury.
University of Wisconsin Press, 212 pp., £23.50, November 1985,
‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism
by John Belchem.
Oxford, 304 pp., £25, October 1985,0 19 822759 0 Show More
by John Belchem.
Oxford, 304 pp., £25, October 1985,
“... the willingness of citizens to seek improvement by spontaneously organising to promote a cause. Lansbury focuses on two such causes: feminism and anti-vivisection. Well before Victoria came to the throne in 1837 the anti-slave-trade movement had shown that ‘one person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests,’ as J.S. Mill put ... ”
