Middle-class life in Victorian Belfast /

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city's greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Alice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Reappraisals in Irish history ; 15.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Portrait of a civic elite
  • Family businesses, working lives and civic activism
  • A 'Northern Athens'? Cultural and intellectual life
  • A divided city
  • Lifestyle and recreation
  • Women and family
  • A British or an Irish city? The identity of Victorian Belfast.