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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 14 Mar 2004 to 15 Mar 2004 (#2004-76)
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Topics of the day:

  1. Crime and Class in Victorian Poetry (4)
  2. Ruskin, Bell, RA, and Dissection
  3. Catalogue of book trade manuscripts
  4. Hair length
  5. Pepys in Punch (2)

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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:28:57 +0000
From:    Carrie Etter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Crime and Class in Victorian Poetry

Hello. For an essay assignment in the course Crime, Madness, and
Sensation 1830-1870, two of my students are seeking poems that deal with
crime in relation to class issues. All suggestions would be appreciated.


Carrie Etter
Visiting Lecturer
University of Hertfordshire

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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:18:03 -0600
From:    [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ruskin, Bell, RA, and Dissection

Ruskin turned down the opportunity to review the posthumous and
much-revised 3rd edn of Bell's The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression
as Connected with the Fine Arts (1844) for the Quarterly Review, on the
grounds that he could not gratify John Murray's desire for Bell's widow
to see a uniformly favorable review.

Jonathan Smith
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:38:26 -0600
From:    Patrick Leary <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Catalogue of book trade manuscripts

[The following notice from Richard Ford, who has a specialty in (among
other things) 19th-c. literary manuscripts, is cross-posted from the
SHARP-L list. Any queries should be directed to him privately at
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      As a manuscript dealer specialising in bookselling and publishing
history, I would like to announce the publication of my latest Catalogue
entitled BOOK TRADE MATTERS: Bookselling and Publishing Correspondence,
1735-1956. It includes a receipt signed by Jane Austen's first
publisher, Egerton, an archive relating to The Athenaeum, and letters to
(and some from) a range of booksellers and publishers including Bentley,
Bohte, Burn, Clarke, Colburn, Jeffery, John Russell Smith (75 items) and
Robert Triphook (19 items). (All are either unrepresented or
under-represented in major Collections ­ arguable in only one instance.)
The major archive comprises the literary papers of J.T.J. Hewlett,
author of Peter Priggins, The College Scout (1841) and periodical
journalist, whose correspondents include publishers (and, in the case of
Colburn, his staff), editors, authors, and the redoubtable Mary Ann
Hughes, grandmother of the author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, whose
thirty-one substantial letters to Hewlett provide evidence of her
literary gifts and her status in the literary world.

If interested in further information such as a list of the booksellers
and publishers featured, or the Catalogue on attachment or in hard copy,
please contact me at [log in to unmask]

I would also welcome enquiries about publishers and booksellers I have
not catalogued yet but who may feature in my reserve stock.

My main inventory, a small sample of which may be found in my Catalogue,
may be found on www.abebooks.com.

Richard Ford
Richard M. Ford Ltd,
70 Chaucer Road,
London, W3 6DP, U.K.
00 44 (0)208 993 1235
00 44 (0)208 752 1431
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:25:25 -0000
From:    Jill Grey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Hair length

After failing to find an answer in the archive, could I ask whether
there was any particular age at which a young unmarried woman was
expected to cut or put up her hair? I'm trying to put an exact date to a
photograph of a very long-haired girl, probably in her mid teens. It was
taken by a professional photographer outside the city home of her
step-father (Deputy Chief Constable of County Police) between 1886 and
1889. I've tried every other means of pinning down a date and am reduced
to clutching at straws.

Jill
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:26:54 -0500
From:    "Eileen M. Curran" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Crime and Class in Victorian Poetry

Tennyson's "Maud"

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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:11:32 +0000
From:    Rebecca Steinitz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Pepys in Punch

When I haven't been looking for them, I know I've seen numerous
references to parodies of Pepys in Punch.  If anyone has details of such
parodies, it would save me from the time-consuming, if enjoyable, task
of combing through the Punch archives.

Thanks,
Becca

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Rebecca Steinitz
Department of English
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH  43015
740-368-3589
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:05:58 -0500
From:    "Raymond L. Baubles, Jr." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Crime and Class in Victorian Poetry

Carrie:

Robert Browning's monologue "Porphyria's Lover" would certainly be
relevant.

Ray Baubles
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:06:24 -0600
From:    [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Crime and Class in Victorian Poetry

Both Brownings took a strong interest in this intersection.  Try EBB's
"The Runaway Slave" and RB's "The Laboratory", or for longer works
*Aurora Leigh* and *The Ring and the Book*.  Also Tennyson, "Rizpah."

Herbert F. Tucker
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English, 219 Bryan Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22904-4121
434 / 924 6677  fax 434 / 924 1478
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Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:48:42 -0600
From:    Patrick Leary <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Pepys in Punch

Becca, the most extensive parody of Pepys in Punch was done by Richard
("Dicky") Doyle in 1849-50, as "Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe in
1849, Mr Pips his Diary," with accompanying letterpress by Percival
Leigh.  If you just leaf through volumes 17 and 18 you'll quickly spot
Doyle's wonderful 2/3-page drawings, all of them crowd scenes.  (Nobody
else did crowds quite like Doyle.)  The series later appeared in book
form by Bradbury & Evans, Punch's publishers.

-- Patrick
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Patrick Leary
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