Victorian values : personalities and perspectives in nineteenth-century society /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Marsden, Gordon, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Longman, 1990.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century. Social values > History > 19th century. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Biography. Great Britain > Biography.

Table of Contents:

"Kindness and reason" : William Lovett and education / Brian Harrison
"Cultivated capital" : patronage and art in nineteenth-century Manchester and Leeds / Janet Wolff and Caroline Arscott
Dickens and his readers / Philip Collins
Pugin and the Medieval dream / Nigel Yates
Titus Salt : enlightened entrepreneur / Ian Campbell Bradley
Samuel Smiles : the gospel of self-help / Asa Briggs
Building bridges : George Godwin and architectural journalism / Robert Thorne
Gladstonian finance / H.C.G. Matthew
Ministering angels : Victorian ladies and nursing reform / Anne Summers
Joseph Chamberlain and the municipal ideal / Derek Fraser
Herbert Spencer and "inevitable" progress / Robert M. Young.
Stewart Headlam and the Christian Socialists / Edward Norman
Mary Kingsley and West Africa / Dea Birkett
Attic attitudes : Leighton and aesthetic philosophy / Stephen Jones
"Commanding the heart" : Edward Carpenter and friends / Sheila Rowbotham
The quest for Englishness / Paul Rich.