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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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Reappraisals in Irish history ;
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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.