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Subject:

VICTORIA Digest - 3 Feb 1999 to 4 Feb 1999 (fwd)

From:

Jane Ennis <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:09:20 +0000 (GMT)

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:01:42 -0500
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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 3 Feb 1999 to 4 Feb 1999

There are 19 messages totalling 755 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. G.P.R. James?
  2. Supplementary CFP: Wealth, Poverty and the Victorians
  3. The Face on the Bar-Room Floor
  4. Programme: Representing Victorian Lives
  5. FW: Bronte Bios -Reply
  6. Essential undergraduate critical texts (3)
  7. cost of Blake's _Songs of Innocence and Experience_ (2)
  8. Africans in England (4)
  9. Thanks and puerperal question (4)
 10. MVSA Conference

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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:11:36 -0800
From:    Sheldon Goldfarb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: G.P.R. James?

G.P.R. James, author of historical and chivalric novels such as _Darnley_
and _Edward the Black Prince_, had the honour of being parodied by
Thackeray in the latter's collection of parodies,_Punch's Prize Novelists_,
along with Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Mrs. Gore, etc.

Sheldon Goldfarb
[log in to unmask]

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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:54:59 GMT
From:    Martin Hewitt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Supplementary CFP: Wealth, Poverty and the Victorians

Dear All,

Can I just post a supplementary call for papers for the Wealth
Poverty and the Victorians conference this July in Leeds. Thus far we
have a very full programme (60+ papers); but I have vacancies in
several slots, and am particularly looking for papers which examine
issues of wealth (its creation and deployment), and perhaps also
rural poverty. If anyone out there is still interested in offering a
paper especially in these two areas, please contact me asap, with
title and abstract if possible.

Martin Hewitt
[log in to unmask]


CALL FOR PAPERS

Wealth, Poverty
and the
Victorians

              12th-14th July 1999, Trinity and All Saints, Leeds

Over the last 10 or 15 years a variety of debates have raged in parallel over the
Victorians' "idea of poverty", the relative strengths of new wealth and old wealth, the
limitations of capitalist culture during the nineteenth century. As these individual
controversies lose some of their fierce introversion, perhaps the time is opportune
for a broader consideration of the themes of poverty and wealth in the Victorian
period, an exploration of the complex ways in which the Victorians dealt with the twin
cultural challenges of poverty and riches in an era in which the spectre of one and
the spur of the other were more widely and intensely felt throughout society than
perhaps at any time before or since.

Potential themes include:
   * the nouveau riches: images and realities
   * senses of impoverishment/ideas of wealth
   * varieties of paternalism: changing ideologies of the right use of wealth
   * legislative interventions: poor laws and death duties
   * religious responses to worldly success or failure
   * cycles of gain and loss: the self-made and the self-unmade
   * decadence and destitution: visual responses
   * property, poverty and political economy

However, these ideas are not meant to be prescriptive, and proposals for papers on
any topic germane to the broad theme are welcome.


Please send proposals (250 words max), by 20th December 1998, to Martin Hewitt,
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Humanities, Trinity and All Saints,
Brownberrie Lane, Leeds, LS18 5HD, UK.
Tel:           (+44) (0)113 283 7231       EMail:  [log in to unmask]
School Office: (+44) (0)113 283 7191       Fax:  (+44) (0)113 283 7200

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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:07:35 -0500
From:    Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Face on the Bar-Room Floor

Hi!

Many thanks to everyone who responded to my question about "The Face on the
Bar-Room Floor".  I'm immensely grateful, and I'm sure my student will be
too.

All the best
Chris (not currently on a bar-room floor, although it has been known!)

--------------
Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:48:26 GMT
From:    Martin Hewitt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Programme: Representing Victorian Lives

Dear All,

Can I just post the programme of the "Representing Victorian Lives"
colloquium to be held at Trinity and All Saints, Leeds, March 13th.
Registrants will receive copies of the second volume of the *Leeds
Working Papers in Victorian Studies*, which includes the
papers of Jay, Chase, O'Gorman, Drack, Gavin, Sanders, Poe, Gray,
Jagger, Wootton, Malcolm and John. The other papers (with the
exception of David Amigoni's introductory overview) will be
predistributed as photocopies.

There is a form at the foot of the programme for anyone interested in
registering. This can be returned to me or to Noreen Hamblin at
[log in to unmask]

Hope to see some of you here in March

Martin Hewitt
[log in to unmask]

-----------------------------------------------------------
           Representing Victorian Lives - Programme

10.00 - 10.30  Registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.30
David Amigoni (Keele), Autobiography-Biography-Fiction: Interdisciplinary
perspective on generic permeability in Victorian Life Writing
11.35 - 12.20  Making Lives
Elisabeth Jay (Westminster College, Oxford), What does a woman have to do to
`get a life'?
Paul Barlow (Northumbria), Individuality and  Victorianess : sure thought on
Victorian portraiture.
12.25 - 1.10   Session A: Considerations of genre
Malcolm Chase (Leeds), Allen Davenport and autobiographical self-constructions.
Francis O'Gorman (Cheltenham and Gloucester), Memoirs of a Fox Hunting, Stag
Hunting, Otter Hunting, Wild Fowl Hunting Man.
12.25 - 1.10   Session B: Biography as literature
Sibylle Drack (Berne), Discourse and Dialogue as a means of representing
Victorian lives in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley
Adrienne E Gavin (Canterbury Christ Church College), `The autobiography of a
horse?': a biographical reading of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

1.15 - 2.00    Lunch

2.10 - 2.55    Session A: Gender crossings
Valerie Sanders (Sunderland), Women Writing Men's Lives: Margaret Oliphant's
Dethroned Kings
Simon Poe (Leeds Metropolitan), Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the Past
2.10 - 2.55    Session B: Questions of Class
Peter Gurney (Huddersfield), Thomas Frost and autobiographical escapology
Robbie Gray (Portsmouth), Middle class autobiography.
3.00 - 3.45    Session A: Dickensian Lives?
Catherine Samiei (Aberdeen), Imagined States and Spectacular Visions:
Victorian Pathologies of Mind and Body in the Novels of Charles
Dickens. 3.00 - 3.45    Session B: Memorialising lives
Nicholas Jagger, Walter Scott
Sarah Wootton (Sheffield), Reinventing Keats: The Late Victorian Letters
of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Thomas Hall Caine.

3.45 - 4.15    Tea

4.15 - 5.00    Session A: Literary autobiography
Robert Davis (St Andrew's College, Glasgow), Richard Jefferies' Story of My
Heart
Gabrielle Malcolm (Kent), Before the Knowledge of Evil: The
Autobiography of the early life of Mary Braddon
4.15 - 5.00    Session B: Life-writing and ideas of the "Victorian"
Angela V John (Greenwich), Imag(in)ing H.W. Nevinson: war
correspondent, literary journalist and rebel
Margaret Linley (Simon Fraser), Christina Rossetti and Literary Love at the
Millennium
___________________________________________________________________________
I am planning to attend  Representing Victorian Lives  on 13 March 1999,
and enclose stlg17.50 registration fee (cheques payable to "Trinity and
All Saints").

NAME...........................................................................................INSTITUTION....................................
...............

ADDRESS..............................................................................................................................................
...................

...........................................................................................................................................................
........................

SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENT
..................................................................................................................
Please indicate which sessions you plan to attend:

Session A:     12.25 - 1.10        2.10 - 2.55         3.00-3.45           4.15 - 5.00

Session B:     12.25 - 1.10             2.10 - 2.55         3.00-3.45                     4.15 - 5.00

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:14:57 -0500
From:    "Stamper, Greg S." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Bronte Bios -Reply

> Barker is one biographer who tends to regard her subjects as real people,
> and not as mythic archetypes.  Thus her "renderings" of Branwell and
> particularly of Patrick tend to be more well-rounded than some of the
> earlier hagiographies.  I certainly don't consider Barker to be
> revisionist, but rather a refreshing realist.
>
> Greg Stamper
> Wright State University
>
>

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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:40:26 +0000
From:    Les Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Essential undergraduate critical texts

Thursday, 4th February

Dear VICTORIAnists:

A few days ago Jack Kolb called John Rosenberg's The Darkening Glass "one
of the 20 or so critical works that any advanced undergraduate interested
in Victorian literature should read."

I'm curious to know what other texts members of this list would include
among those 20 or so "essential" critical studies for advanced
undergraduates.

Les Bailey / English Department / Saint Martin's College / Olympia, WA
98503
[log in to unmask]








-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jack Kolb wrote:

>I'd echo this, emphatically.  Rosenberg's study is one of the best books on
>Ruskin, and Victorianism generally, that I've ever read.  It's definitely a
>critical and biographical study, and no doubt some of the biographical
>information may need updating.  But it's one of the 20 or so critical works
>that any advanced undergraduate interested in Victorian literature should
>read.

>Note: I'd recommend it to graduate students with the same fervor, but these
>days I do everything I can to discourage undergraduates from even
>considering graduate study in English.

>Jack Kolb
>Dept. of English, UCLA
>[log in to unmask]

>John Rosenberg's The Darkening Glass?
>
>Les Bailey / English Department / Saint Martin's College / Olympia, WA  98503

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:39:50 -0600
From:    Mary Lenard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: cost of Blake's _Songs of Innocence and Experience_

About a week and a half ago, I was doing some poems from Blake's _Songs of
Innocence and Experience_ in my British lit survey class and was trying to
make the point that Blake's mode of production (the etching, individual
watercolor tinting and hand binding, etc.) made the books objets d'art
that would probably made them out of reach in cost except only for a few
collectors and connoisseurs, explaining why there are only 27 known
copies of these books. One of the students asked me: 1) what would
one of the collected _Songs of Innocence and Experience_ have cost in
1794, and 2) What would one of those original illuminated books cost now?
I don't know the answer to the first question offhand, but I am especially
at loss to find the answer to the second question.  Does anyone interested
in the antiques/art/antiquarian books market happen to know if one of
Blake's illuminated books of the Songs of Innocence and Experience has
come up for auction at any point in the last 10 years or so?  If so, how
much did it sell for?

Mary Lenard

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:13:27 -0800
From:    ryan johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Essential undergraduate critical texts

Certainly Gilbert and Gubar's _The Madwoman in the Attic_.  As it
continues, after forty years, to inform almost any account of the origins
of the novel as a genre, certainly Ian Watt's _The Rise of the Novel_.
And undoubtedly Catherine Gallagher's _The Industrial Reformation of the
English Novel_. Though with slightly less enthusiasm (but only slightly),
I'd also include two books by D.A. Miller:  _The Novel and the Police_ and
_Narrative and its Discontents_.

Canonically yours,
Ryan Johnson


On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Les Bailey wrote:

> Thursday, 4th February
>
> Dear VICTORIAnists:
>
> A few days ago Jack Kolb called John Rosenberg's The Darkening Glass "one
> of the 20 or so critical works that any advanced undergraduate interested
> in Victorian literature should read."
>
> I'm curious to know what other texts members of this list would include
> among those 20 or so "essential" critical studies for advanced
> undergraduates.
>
> Les Bailey / English Department / Saint Martin's College / Olympia, WA
> 98503
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jack Kolb wrote:
>
> >I'd echo this, emphatically.  Rosenberg's study is one of the best books on
> >Ruskin, and Victorianism generally, that I've ever read.  It's definitely a
> >critical and biographical study, and no doubt some of the biographical
> >information may need updating.  But it's one of the 20 or so critical works
> >that any advanced undergraduate interested in Victorian literature should
> >read.
>
> >Note: I'd recommend it to graduate students with the same fervor, but these
> >days I do everything I can to discourage undergraduates from even
> >considering graduate study in English.
>
> >Jack Kolb
> >Dept. of English, UCLA
> >[log in to unmask]
>
> >John Rosenberg's The Darkening Glass?
> >
> >Les Bailey / English Department / Saint Martin's College / Olympia, WA  98503
>

Ryan Johnson
General Editor
Stanford Humanities Review
Mariposa House, 536 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford University    94305

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Department of English                   415-626-5885
Stanford University                     [log in to unmask]
Stanford, CA  94305

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking. -Nietzsche
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:48:36 -0700
From:    Ben Varner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Essential undergraduate critical texts

>

  In addition to the excellent texts already
  recommended, I would certainly add the
  following:

  Jerome Buckley's _The Victorian Temper_ (1951)

  Walter Houghton's _The Victorian Frame of Mind_ (1957)

   Richard Altick's _Victorian People and Ideas_ (1973)

                                    Ben Varner
                    University of Northern Colorado

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:46:52 -0500
From:    Paul Batkin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Africans in England

I've crept out of my lurk mode to pass a question to the list for a friend.
She's teaching a Western Civ class and is interested to know if there are
any good books about Africans in 19th century England.  I couldn't think of
any off hand.

Thanks to the list in advance,

Paul


Paul Batkin
Writing Program
Syracuse University
[log in to unmask]

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:37:09 -0700
From:    Christine Alfano <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Thanks and puerperal question

Thank you to everyone who answered my ME Braddon questions -- both about
female editorship and about the Yelverton divorce case.  Here's another
question:

Braddon apparently suffered from a nervous breakdown in 1868-9 that was
complicated by "puerperal fever".  I've find reference to "puerperal
insanity" in Showalter's Female Malady, but not to the fever.  Is it the
same thing?  Or, does it have something to do with post-partum depression
(I only wonder this because Braddon had just had a baby at this point)?

Thanks again for your help.

Christine.
____________

Christine Alfano
[log in to unmask]
        or
[log in to unmask]

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:27:42 EST
From:    "Thomas L. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: cost of Blake's _Songs of Innocence and Experience_

In a message dated 2/4/99 1:41:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> What would one of those original illuminated books cost now?
>  I don't know the answer to the first question offhand, but I am especially
>  at loss to find the answer to the second question.  Does anyone interested
>  in the antiques/art/antiquarian books market happen to know if one of
>  Blake's illuminated books of the Songs of Innocence and Experience has
>  come up for auction at any point in the last 10 years or so?

 I couldn't find a listing for a 1794 edition.  The 1839 Pickering edition is
listed as the "first public edition" and is listed for $2,500.  An 1866
edition edited by Rossetti list for $450 and an 1874 for $250.

Tom Smith

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:47:10 -0500
From:    Antje Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Thanks and puerperal question

Puerperal fever is an infection of the female reproductive tract when it
is particularly susceptible to infections right after childbirth. It was
often fatal because of the lack of treatment for infections.  Childbed
fever is another name for it, and because of the lack of awareness about
the importance of basic hygiene for preventing such infections, it was
fairly common, especially in nineteenth-century hospital.  There is a
fairly decent entry in the Encyclopedie Britannica online that I've drawn
on in the past.  It might have been listed under 'Ignaz Semmelweis,' the
doctor who discovered/proved how to prevent the spread of puerperal fever
by using disinfectant.

Medically more savvy listserv members, please correct me.

Antje Anderson


On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christine Alfano wrote:

> Thank you to everyone who answered my ME Braddon questions -- both about
> female editorship and about the Yelverton divorce case.  Here's another
> question:
>
> Braddon apparently suffered from a nervous breakdown in 1868-9 that was
> complicated by "puerperal fever".  I've find reference to "puerperal
> insanity" in Showalter's Female Malady, but not to the fever.  Is it the
> same thing?  Or, does it have something to do with post-partum depression
> (I only wonder this because Braddon had just had a baby at this point)?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Christine.
> ____________
>
> Christine Alfano
> [log in to unmask]
>         or
> [log in to unmask]
>

____________________________________________________________________
                          Antje Schaum Anderson
                           English Department
  Dickinson College                                East College 408
  Carlisle, PA 17018                               Ext. 1359
                         [log in to unmask]


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Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:03:04 -0800
From:    Lee Kress <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Thanks and puerperal question

One of puerperal fever's best known victims was Mary Wollstonecraft; she
died of it about ten days after giving birth to Mary Godwin (Shelley).
I've also heard that the cause of puerperal fever was suspected for quite
some time, but that doctors were offended by  the suggestion that they might
be spreading it, so they strongly resisted  using disinfectants at first.

Lee Kress
[log in to unmask]

-----Original Message-----
From: Antje Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Thanks and puerperal question


>Puerperal fever is an infection of the female reproductive tract when it
>is particularly susceptible to infections right after childbirth. It was
>often fatal because of the lack of treatment for infections.  Childbed
>fever is another name for it, and because of the lack of awareness about
>the importance of basic hygiene for preventing such infections, it was
>fairly common, especially in nineteenth-century hospital.  There is a
>fairly decent entry in the Encyclopedie Britannica online that I've drawn
>on in the past.  It might have been listed under 'Ignaz Semmelweis,' the
>doctor who discovered/proved how to prevent the spread of puerperal fever
>by using disinfectant.
>
>Medically more savvy listserv members, please correct me.
>
>Antje Anderson
>
>

------------------------------

Date:    Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:54:21 -0700
From:    Christopher Keep <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Africans in England

you might consider _the history of mary prince_ , an "autobiography"
dictated by an african woman living in england at the time of the campaign
to pass the emancipation act. the text's editor, moira ferguson, has written
a very good book on slave narratives.

cheers,

chris keep

>I've crept out of my lurk mode to pass a question to the list for a friend.
>She's teaching a Western Civ class and is interested to know if there are
>any good books about Africans in 19th century England.  I couldn't think of
>any off hand.
>
>Thanks to the list in advance,
>
>Paul
>
>
>Paul Batkin
>Writing Program
>Syracuse University
>[log in to unmask]
>
>

Christopher Keep
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Victoria
Victoria, Canada
V8W 3W1
http://web.uvic.ca/~ckeep

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:57:23 -0600
From:    Robert Koepp <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: MVSA Conference

Following the lead of Glenn Everett and Martin Hewitt, I write to inform
VICTORIA subscribers of an upcoming conference, the Midwest Victorian
Studies Association's Twenty-Third Annual Meeting, to be held in
downtown Chicago at the Palmer House Hilton, April 23rd and 24th.  The
conference program is now available on the MVSA website
(http://www.ic.edu/MVSA), along with registration information.

The MVSA's call for papers for this conference elicited an extraordinary
response.  On behalf of the program committee, I would like to thank all
of the many people who submitted proposals for individual and panel
presentations.  We hope that those whose papers were not selected for
inclusion in this conference program will submit proposals to MVSA again
in the future.

We also hope that many of you will be able to join us in Chicago in
April for what should prove to be a very fine meeting indeed.

Bob Koepp
MVSA Executive Secretary

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:57:56 -0800
From:    Sheldon Goldfarb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Africans in England

One book I looked at recently which has some information on this topic is

 Lorimer, Douglas Alexander.  Colour, class, and the Victorians : English
attitudes
      to the Negro in the mid-nineteenth century. [Leicester] : Leicester
University Press, 1978.


Sheldon Goldfarb
[log in to unmask]

------------------------------

Date:    Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:01:06 +0000
From:    Malcolm Shifrin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Thanks and puerperal question

Christine Alfano wrote:

> Braddon apparently suffered from a nervous breakdown in 1868-9 that was
> complicated by "puerperal fever".  I've find reference to "puerperal
> insanity" in Showalter's Female Malady, but not to the fever.  Is it the
> same thing?  Or, does it have something to do with post-partum depression
> (I only wonder this because Braddon had just had a baby at this point)?
>

I'm really grateful to Christine for asking this question since I have
previously come across two references which I was unable to interpret
correctly. When I was researching a couple of years ago for an MA paper
rather pretentiously called 'It keeps my skin in excellent condition’: some
aspects of women’s health and the use of the Victorian Turkish bath_ I
discovered that in 1866, a year after Edgar Sheppard introduced the Turkish
bath at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, his (un-named) colleague in the female
department welcomed it, dating the recovery of a patient from 'puerperal
mania'  and 'furunculosis' to her third bath. Pressed for time in the manner
of students (even so-called mature ones) I was unable to investigate further,
but blithely (and possibly incorrectly) assumed that the 'mania' was probably
post-natal depression and  ignored the furunculosis completely.
The second reference, which I came across in the September 1939 issue of the
_Ciba symposia_ was more unusual for it referred to the report of a committee
set up by the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland to visit
Dr Barter's St Anne's Hydropathic Establishment near Blarney "to examine and
report upon the efficacy of the Turkish Bath as a remedy for distemper in
horned cattle …". The report was favourable and several veterinary
establishments in Ireland and England erected baths for the regular treatment
of cattle diseases. Among the conditions treated by Barter (who built the
first Victorian Turkish bath) were pleauro-pneumonia, puerperal fever,
distemper and strangles.
Christine's query reminded me of these strange references and, being now at
home, I was able refer to the 3rd ed of _The Penguin medical dictionary_
which included furunculosis (a crop of boils) and a longer entry on puerperal
fever. This "can mean any high temperature following childbirth, but is
generally taken to mean infection of the birth-passage as a result of
childbirth… Until the mid 19th century death from puerperal fever was
appallingly common, and the growth of hospitals was making matter worse
because infection was carried from patient to patient. Estimates run as high
as one death among every 4 nursing mothers in some hospitals."
I hope that this is of some interest and help.
Malcolm
 Leatherhead, UK.

------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:26:00 -0800
From:    [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Africans in England

A recent book of interest is _King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White
Queen: Victorian Britian through African Eyes_ by Neil Parsons (Chicago
1998).

Lila Harper
[log in to unmask]

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Paul Batkin wrote:

> I've crept out of my lurk mode to pass a question to the list for a friend.
> She's teaching a Western Civ class and is interested to know if there are
> any good books about Africans in 19th century England.  I couldn't think of
> any off hand.
>
> Thanks to the list in advance,
>
> Paul
>
>
> Paul Batkin
> Writing Program
> Syracuse University
> [log in to unmask]
>

------------------------------

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