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There are 28 messages totalling 1231 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Thackeray
2. Woman's sphere (6)
3. Motherhood & Nannies
4. Maps of Victorian Europe & Kaiser Wilhelm's arm (2)
5. A Carroll Christmas (4)
6. Query:Domestic Sphere
7. Query: The domestic sphere, early and late century (4)
8. 2nd CFP: MSA 4
9. Victorian Christmas (2)
10. Portfolio Society
11. TTHA Poem of the Month for January
12. Morris Society Web Site Updates
13. History of the Book courses at Virginia
14. Dickens's Dictionary online
15. Help! Dating Twist
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:27:55 -0800
From: Sheldon Goldfarb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Thackeray
The interesting thing about Thackeray is how he simultaneously presents and
represses public events. The classic example is in _Vanity Fair_:
At the centre of that novel is the Battle of Waterloo--and yet actually the
battle isn't there; it's all offstage. We see none of the fighting.
Thackeray's interest is in the non-combatants waiting for the outcome. If
you like, he is imbedding the public in the private, using the effect of
public events to explore private matters, like Amelia's grief or her
brother's cowardice.
On the public-private dichotomy in Thackeray, see two articles in the
Dickens Studies Annual: Elliot Gilbert's "To Awake from History" [12 (1983):
247-65] and Dwight Lindley's "Clio and Three Historical Novels" [10
(1982):77-90]; also Harry Shaw's book on historical fiction.
Sheldon Goldfarb
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:17:37 -0000
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Woman's sphere
Hi!
How about Margaret's intervention to protect Thornton from the rioters in
Gaskell's "North and South"?
Or Mrs Humphrey Ward's "Marcella" which satirises the heroine's attempts to
be effective in the public sphere.
Later 19C anti-Suffrage texts embody the argument that women should stay out
of the public sphere - not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking
for. There are also numerous late 19C detective stories in which the woman
detective intervenes successfully in the public sphere only to give it up
for the "acceptable" sphere of marriage and maternity at the end of the
book.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:57:04 -0000
From: Tony Ward <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Motherhood & Nannies
Here are some references on motherhood I complied when I was researching
infanticide. I don't remember whether any of them have much to say on
nannies (several are about women who certainly couldn't afford one); though
Matus is certainly good on wet-nurses.
Barret-Ducrocq, Françoise (1992) Love in the Time of Victoria.
Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Davies, Margaret Llewellyn (Ed.) (1978) Maternity: Letters from
Working-Women Collected by the Women's Co-Operative Guild (reprint of 1915
ed.). New York & London: W.W. Norton.
Humphries, Stephen, & Gordon, P. (1993) A Labour of Love: the Experience of
Parenthood in Britain 1900-50. London: Sidgwick & Jackson.
Lewis, J. (1980) The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in
England, 1900-1939. London: Croom Helm.
Matus, Jill L. (1995) Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of
Sexuality and Maternity. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Roberts, Elizabeth (1984) A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class
Women 1890-1940. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Shuttleworth, Sally (1992) Demonic mothers: ideologies of bourgeios
motherhood in the mid-Victorian era. In Linda M. Shires (Ed.), Rewriting the
Victorians (pp. 31-51). London: Routledge.
Tony Ward
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:53:43 +0200
From: "Prof. M.Van Wyk Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Maps of Victorian Europe & Kaiser Wilhelm's arm
On 9 Jan 2002, at 15:59, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I could find maps of Victorian Europe? I am
reading > "Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz" by Van Der Kiste and am woefully
ignorant of > the geography of Europe during this period -- especially with
regard to the > German principalities. I would like to find maps which
detail the geography > as well as the political alliances, ethnic origins
and the ties between the > various royal families. I hope this isn't too
tall of an order! A visual > reference would certainly enhance my reading
of this book.
Try the Times History Atlas of Europe.
Malvern van Wyk Smith
Department of English
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
South Africa
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:53 -0000
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Woman's sphere
Hi!
Another novel about women and public v private sphere's is L.T. Meade?s
1898 novel *The Cleverest Woman in England*. It's a study of the problems
of a politically active woman who refuses to conform to the 'womanly'
stereotype of wife as Angel in the House. The heroine, Dagmar Olloffson,
who is a dedicated campaigner for women's rights. Unfortunately Dagmar
tries to combine her beliefs with marriage to a man who is best described by
the 1960s term "male chauvinist pig" and she comes to an unhappy and
untimely end.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:30:03 EST
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Woman's sphere
In a message dated Thu, 10 Jan 2002 4:25:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> > There are also numerous late 19C detective stories in which the woman
> detective intervenes successfully in the public sphere only to give it up
> for the "acceptable" sphere of marriage and maternity at the end of the
> book.> >>
Can you give some titles and authors, please? I'm an avid reader of
detective stories, Victorian and otherwise, but I don't think I've ever
read any with plots like you describe. Thanks!
Jennifer
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:35:26 -0500
From: Holly Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: A Carroll Christmas
Dear Matt,
<So how did Victorians celebrate Christmas? >
This is just a thought, but there's a very nostalgic short story by
Agatha Christie called "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" that
might be helpful; I noticed that all of her Hallowe'en details (in
_Hallowe'en Party_) matched up with the list's recent discussion of that
holiday in England. Let me know if you can't find the text and I can
copy the details: off the top of my head--there are stockings for
children in bed, noon meal with 2 turkeys (1 roast, 1 boiled), sprigging
with holly & mistletoe, lighting the tree, presents and then cold
supper. Christie was born in 1890, so her recollection is of a v. late
Victn childhood Xmas--but many of the Xmas events are very old
conventions.
The Christmas pudding has a number of rituals attached: apparently the
idea is to serve it out quickly, so everyone's portion is still aflame
when they get it; they make a wish over the flame; each portion has a
surprise/trinket inside (rings, bachelor's button, thimble for a
spinster) with a coded meaning; when the pudding is prepared--well ahead
of time--each member of the house is supposed to stir the pudding batter
and make a wish.
There is a very brief description of Xmas in Bk II, Ch II of _The Mill
on the Floss_. Eliot's emphasis is on decorations (holly and ivy), carol
singing, church going and food: plum pudding, and a dessert of oranges,
nuts, apple jelly and damson cheese. Sounds tasty.
Hope this helps,
Holly
Holly Forsythe, doctoral student, University of Toronto
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:35:34 -0500
From: Holly Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Query:Domestic Sphere
"Doris H. Meriwether" wrote:
> Dorothea, in Eliot's _Middlemarch_, comes to mind as a female who wants
> to move beyond the domestic sphere with unsatisfying results,
There are also the actresses, Mirah Cohen and Alcharisi in _Daniel
Deronda_, although actresses are a special case, so I'm not sure if
that's helpful. Romola's ministrations to the poor are also too feminine
to be objectionable.
Hope this helps,
Holly Forsythe, doctoral student, University of Toronto
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:45:20 -0000
From: Paul Barlow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Query: The domestic sphere, early and late century
Should we really research by cherry-picking examples to prove a
pointalready decided on? I never do any such thing of course!
There are some marvelously OTT anti female worker rants in 'The British
Workman'. I particularly enjoy "O Stap at Whoame, Mammy, Wi' Tammy an' Me"
(Dec 1863), a touching plea from a child to its mother to stop destroying
civilization as we know it by going out to work. There's also a lovely essay
called 'The Wife at Home'.
"Where the state of things described [women working] is found to exist, it
is obvious that the social evils just generated must multiply and become
more and more aggravated by the progress of time; every succeeding
generation may be expected to wax worse and worse. They already prevail in
certain districts to an extent which threatens to introduce a state of semi
barbarism."
Inspiring stuff!
Paul Barlow
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:55:55 -0500
From: Joseph H Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Woman's sphere
One of the characters in _Miiss Miles_ launches--with great trepedation--a
career as a public speaker. Cheers from a Joe Gardner eagerly awaiting
his retirement into the domestic sphere. (First I'll alphabetize my wife's
spice cabinet. Then...)
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From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:17:37 -0000
Subject: Woman's sphere
Hi!
How about Margaret's intervention to protect Thornton from the rioters in
Gaskell's "North and South"?
Or Mrs Humphrey Ward's "Marcella" which satirises the heroine's attempts to
be effective in the public sphere.
Later 19C anti-Suffrage texts embody the argument that women should stay out
of the public sphere - not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking
for. There are also numerous late 19C detective stories in which the woman
detective intervenes successfully in the public sphere only to give it up
for the "acceptable" sphere of marriage and maternity at the end of the
book.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:56:36 -0500
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Subject: 2nd CFP: MSA 4
CALL FOR SEMINAR AND PANEL PROPOSALS
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:24:33 GMT
From: Lesley Hall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: A Carroll Christmas
> Dear Matt,
> <So how did Victorians celebrate Christmas? >
Ronald Hutton, in _Stations of the Sun_, includes a
substantial amount of material on the changing nature
of Christmas celebrations in Britain from the early
modern period onwards, and various related seasonal
customs. For many people at least in the earlier to mid
C19th, it would seem that it was primarily a religious
feast - the Dickensian Christmas as a widespread
phenomenon postdating Dickens' actual depictions. By
the C19th many traditional customs were falling away,
until revived (and sometimes mutated) by the folkloric
movement (mumming plays etc).
Lesley Hall
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:25:14 -0500
From: Beth Sutton-Ramspeck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Woman's sphere
The suggestions and comments so far (including those in the very
interesting parallel thread about Thackeray) suggest the complexity of
sorting out what constitutes the "public" or "private" or for that
matter "woman's sphere." For example, in _Middlemarch_, Dorothea's
philanthropic interest in housing for the poor fits very nicely into one
version of "woman's sphere" as including the role of Lady Bountiful,
"mothering" the poor. But by the same token, Hannah More's advocacy of
women's charitable work --because it was appropriate to women's proper
sphere--is credited by Ray Strachey in _The Cause, a history of the
women's suffrage movement, as one of the important origins of women's
moving into the public sphere of social work and seeking equal rights in
education and politics. Strachey is well aware of the ironies!
Long-time VICTORIA subscribers will not be surprised that I disagree
with Chris Willis's description of
> Mrs Humphrey [sp] Ward's "Marcella" which satirises the heroine's
> attempts to
> be effective in the public sphere.
>
I would say that Ward is critical of Marcella's early, ineffective work,
but is intensely positive in the portrayal of Marcella's extraordinarily
competent work after she receives formal nurse's training. Once again,
nursing was an extension of "womanly" behaviors, but Marcella sees it
as "work," a profession, and it involves her very much in what can only
be considered the public sphere, telling off a doctor, giving orders to
police in one scene, etc. Even upon return to more strictly "private"
behaviors at the end of the book--and in its sequel--Marcella's
behaviors continue to be a challenge to older definitions of "woman's
sphere."
And all of this distinction between public and private was, of course,
mainly an issue for middle-class women. Working class women were, by
necessity, rarely "protected" from the realities of the workplace and
practical economics. The early century writing of Charlotte Elizabeth
Tonna, any number of "industrial novels," Moore's _Esther Waters_, and
Hardy's _Tess_, as well as Gissing's already mentioned _Odd Women_ are
obvious examples of the difficulties faced by women forced to enter the
public sphere in order to live. For that matter, there's always Jane
Eyre.
Gaskell's work seems to me particularly interesting in its meditations
on the problem of women's handling of public/private. The wonderful
trial scene of _Mary Barton_, in which Mary must publicly state what
ought only to be said privately, her love for Jem, thus helping to save
his life, offers a fascinating set of problems about separating public
and private. Similarly, in _North and South_, Margaret's public
protection of Thornton is double edged in its significance. And later,
she gets inextricably involved in public sphere economics when she
inherits the land on which Thornton's factory sits, thus becoming his
landlord--and also contemplates district visiting among the poor,
prompting her ditsy cousin to fear she will become "strong minded."
Ultimately, Margaret's ability to retreat into marriage in the private
sphere is made possible by her forays into the public sphere.
What an endlessly fascinating topic.
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:06:53 -0500
From: "D.C. Rose" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Victorian Christmas
W.B. Yeats spent Christmas Day with Oscar and Constance Wilde in 1888, but
does not descibe any particular jollification, which might suggest there
was none to be described.
Was not 'keeping Christmas' or even 'Christmastide' the contemporary
expression?
David Rose
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:43:41 -0500
From: "Terry L. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: A Carroll Christmas
>
><So how did Victorians celebrate Christmas? >
See Tennyson's In Memoriam, sections 28-30, 78, 105, country
customs in the 1830's-40's.:
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
The merry merry bells of Yule.
With shower'd largess of delight
In dance and song and game and jest.
Make one wreath more for Use and Wont,
That guard the portals of the house.
With trembling fingers did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth.
At our old pastimes in the hall
We gambol'd...
A merry song we sang with him
Last year....
...laurel .... holly
The genial hours with mask and mime
...footstep beat the floor,
... bowl of wassail mantle warm
...song...game...feast...
...harp...flute...
...dance ... motion
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:51:28 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Query: The domestic sphere, early and late century
Marie Corelli was very focused (with convoluted views) on this subject in
most of her novels, but look especially at My Wonderful Wife! (1890).
Sueann Schatz has written a chapter on Annie E. Holdsworth's The Years That
the Locust Hath Eaten (1895) and Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a
Modern Woman (1894) in which she deals with the professional writer's
"calamitous or catastrophic" intrusion into the public sphere. Her chapter
will appear in Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers,
edited by myself, and published by Greenwood in 2002. Some American
nineteenth-century texts to consider too on the same subject are Ruth Hall
by Fanny Fern and The Silent Partner and the Story of by Elizabeth Stuart
Ward.
At 02:41 PM 1/9/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear VICTORIAnists,
>
>The importance of the (isolated, extra-economic) domestic sphere is
>obviously far more important early in the 19th-C than it is later in the
>century-- but I'm suddenly completely incapable of thinking of texts--
>novels, particularly-- where this is important or explicit. Help? I'm
>looking specifically for early to mid-century narratives in which female
>intrusion into the public, or economic sphere is calamitous or
catastrophic, >& late century texts in which the matter is more or less a
non-issue. >Firmness of conviction aside, all I seem to be able to come up
with off-hand >is Jellyby & Co in _Bleak House_ .
>
>Thanks so much for your help.
>
>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:54:58 -0000
From: Alison Chapman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Portfolio Society
Can anyone recommend reading on the Portfolio Society?
Many thanks!
Alison
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:56:11 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Query: The domestic sphere, early and late century
Correction to my last post: The Silent Partner and the Story of
Avis were written by Elizabeth Stuart Ward Phelps.
Dr. Brenda Ayres
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:23:31 -0500
From: Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: A Carroll Christmas
>By
>the C19th many traditional customs were falling away,
>until revived (and sometimes mutated) by the folkloric
>movement (mumming plays etc).
On the perenniality of this elegiac perception of Christmas see a fine
recent essay by Erik Gray:
"Tennyson, Virgil, and the Death of Christmas: Influence and the Morte
d'Arthur ," in Arion-A Journal of Humanities & the Classics. 6(2 (3rd
Series)):98-113. 1998 Fall-Winter.
Herbert Tucker
Department of English
University of Virginia 22904-4121
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:29:09 -0800
From: Dennis Denisoff <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Query: The domestic sphere, early and late century
Dear Albert,
I imagine you will get a flood of responses.
However, Geraldine Jewsbury's novel _The Half-Sisters_
(1840s-50s) is especially appropriate because it
juxtaposes one sister staying domestic (and
unfulfilled) and the other becoming a public performer
out of necessity (and ultimately appreciating it).
Jewsbury's own career as a reviewer of novels and
editor (I believe) plus her close relationship with
the Carlyle's offers quite a bit of historical context
for the book. Often, Virginia Woolf's essay
"Geraldine and Jane" is referenced in discussions of
Jewsbury.
Best, Dennis
--- Albert Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear VICTORIAnists,
>
> The importance of the (isolated, extra-economic)
> domestic sphere is
> obviously far more important early in the 19th-C
> than it is later in the
> century-- but I'm suddenly completely incapable of
> thinking of texts--
> novels, particularly-- where this is important or
> explicit. Help? I'm
> looking specifically for early to mid-century
> narratives in which female
> intrusion into the public, or economic sphere is
> calamitous or catastrophic,
> & late century texts in which the matter is more or
> less a non-issue.
> Firmness of conviction aside, all I seem to be able
> to come up with off-hand
> is Jellyby & Co in _Bleak House_ .
>
> Thanks so much for your help.
>
>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:20:20 -0800
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Maps of Victorian Europe & Kaiser Wilhelm's arm
I have found the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (basically a
Victorian-produced text) valuable for its maps of the nineteenth-century
world. Many libraries retain this multi-volume set, and I purchased my
own copy years ago in an auction for KQED in San Francisco. It may may
be available in used book stores.
Karla Walters
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:50:35 -0000
From: Paul Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Victorian Christmas
There is more information about Wilkie Collins and his attitude to Christmas
on my website. But these quotes - in chronological order - give a flavour of
it and show that it was indeed a time when things closed down, people spent
money, changed their diet and had people round for dinner. There was also a
big trade in Christmas books, supplements with magazines etc. Dickens made
much of Christmas supplements to Household Words and All The Year Round.
"This awful Christmas time! I am using up my cheque-book and am in daily
expectation of fresh demands on it." to Charles Ward, 1861
"at this festive season when the Plague of Plum pudding extends its ravages
from end to end of the land, and lays the national digestion prostrate at
the feet of Christmas...I had planned to give up eating and drinking until
the return of Spring ..." to Miss Frith, 27 December 1870
"...are the filthy "Christmas festivities" still an insurmountable obstacle
to any proceeding that is not directly connected with the filling of fat
bellies, and the exchange of vapid good wishes?" to William Tindell, 29
December 1874
"...there are all sorts of impediments - literary and personal - which keep
me in England at the most hateful of all English seasons (to me), the season
of Cant and Christmas...But for Christmas-time, I should have read it long
ago. I have returned to heaps of unanswered letters, bills, payments to
pensioners, stupid and hideous Christmas cards, visits to pay - and every
other social nuisance that gets in the way of a rational enjoyment of
life...There is no news. Everybody is eating and drinking and exchanging
conventional compliments of the season. You are well out of it" to Nina
Lehmann, 28 December 1877
"There is every temptation to die. We have not seen the sun for three weeks,
in London - the plague of Christmas Cards is on the increase...Oh, what a
miserable world to live in!" to Sebastian Schlesinger, 29 December 1883
"But there is surely a chance of a change for the better, after the horrors
of Christmas are over" To Mrs le Poer Wynne, 19th December 1885
"Your kind and liberal letter reaches me, at the season devoted to
prodigious eating and drinking...and holiday-making, and voluminous
appearance of tradesmen's Christmas bills. "Business" is at a standstill,
this year, until Monday next." to a publisher 26 December 1886
Despite these feelings Wilkie did keep Christmas. On 18 December 1854 he
invited his friend Edward Piggott to Hanover Terrace
"Don't talk about having no home to go to - you know you are at home here.
Come and eat your Christmas dinner with us - you will find your knife, fork,
plate and chair all ready for you. Time six o'clock."
www.wilkiecollins.com
Menu
item 20
for more.
Paul
Paul Lewis
web www.paullewis.co.uk
tel 07836 217311
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:38:49 -0000
From: Joan Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Woman's sphere
John Angell James, the minister of Carr's Lane Congregational Church in
Birmingham preached a sermon on 'Woman's Mission', the third of a series of
sermons on 'Female Piety' published in 1852.
His congregation consisted of middle class women who he saw as 'Angels in
the Home'. His message was hardly applicable to lower class women who had no
option but to work.
His text for the sermon was:
'And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will
make him an help meet for him' - Genesis ii,18.
That he felt the need to preach such a sermon suggests that there were women
who spoke out.
The sermon can be found in the Offprint Collection for the fourth-level Open
University course: 'Evangelicals, Women and Community in Nineteenth Century
Britain-page 89 - 'Woman's mission'. Source: James, J.A. (1852) 'Woman's
mission' in 'Female Piety or the Young Women's Friend and Guide through Life
to Immortality, pp.49-80.
A commentary of the above can be seen on my website (as yet unfinished) on:
http://oldwebsite.lineone.net/~rjwilkinson/joanspage.html
Hope the above may be of use.
Regards
Joan Wilkinson
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:46:06 -0600
From: Bill Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: TTHA Poem of the Month for January
After a 10-day delay during which we have moved to a new software
program, I have finally managed to post "A New Year's Eve in War Time" as
the TTHA Poem of the Month for January 2002. It will probably take all of
us a little time to learn to use this new software, so please be both
curious and patient. This month's discussion will be the first in a short
series dedicated to Hardy's holiday poems. I invite your contributions to
a somewhat shortened mid-winter, on-line conversation about one of Hardy's
New Year's meditations on time, violence, and changelessness.
You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the
links from the main TTHA page at
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm
or by going directly to
http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS
Please note the new URL and change any links which may still show the old
address.
Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month
site,
you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the
opportunity to read the poem as well as any comments it may have generated,
compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and
then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. If you are
composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your
message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before
pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free
to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you:
[log in to unmask]
At the present time, this month's discussion is the only one
available at the site. I intend, however, to reconstruct the earlier
discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She
At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters,"
"The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An
Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A
Trampwoman's Tragedy") as well as those concerning Hardy's memorial poems
("The Last Signal," "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of
Shelley and Keats," "Shelley's Skylark," "At a House in Hampstead," "At
Lulworth Cove a Century Back," and "To Shakespeare After Three Hundred
Years") and post them at the site until such time as they are edited and
published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional
Papers.
The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been
"closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1
(July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999
about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA
Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of
Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise,"
and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III
(Summer 2000). All of these publications are available and may be ordered
using a form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above).
The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The
Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June
Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards,"
"Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening,"
"The Night of the Dance" will appear shortly in *The Hardy Review*, IV
(2001).
Welcome to the January 2002 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion.
cheers,
Bill Morgan
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:13:16 -0800
From: "Dr.Tobin at Home" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Morris Society Web Site Updates
[this message has been sent to the VICTORIA-L and EXLIBRIS lists]
[please pardon cross-postings; feel free to announce in other appropriate
forums]
The William Morris Society is pleased to announce an update to our web site
for 2002, with events and news in the U.S. and U.K. until July 2002:
****************************
http://www.morrissociety.org
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On our web site, the Morris Society announces items of interest to
scholars, researchers, and everyone interested in William Morris, his
circle, and the Pre-Raphaelite movement, such as:
* News of Morris Society events in the United Kingdom,
the United States, and worldwide.
* Events and exhibitions related to the life and works
of Morris and his associates.
* Calls for papers and essays for conferences and book
collections.
* Biographical information and examples of Morris's
works in many media.
* Books by and about William Morris.
* Products and services dealing with William Morris
and his circle.
* Links to related web resources.
You are invited to look around on our web site; if you enjoy the resources
there, please consider becoming a member of the society.
Please let us know what you think, and if you have any suggestions about
the site, or would like to bring an event to the attention of the Morris
Society, feel free to contact the Society through the web site.
Enjoy!
s/Thomas J. Tobin, Ph.D.
Governing Committee
The William Morris Society in the United States
406 East Tenth Avenue
Munhall, PA 15120
724.925.4144 office
724.925.1150 fax
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:55:13 -0500
From: Rare Book School <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: History of the Book courses at Virginia
Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]
RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its 2002 Sessions, a collection of
five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts,
the history of books and printing, and special collections to be held at
the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School,
visit our Web site at
http://www.rarebookschool.org
Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School course to
be of particular interest:
22. THE PRINTED BOOK IN THE WEST SINCE 1800 (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 11-15).
The history of the printed book in the West since 1800 is characterized on
the one hand by the ever-accelerating pace of technological change, and on
the other by organized aesthetic and conceptual resistance to that
revolution. This course will survey the technological advances in
papermaking, illustration processes, composition, printing, binding, and
distribution which fueled the development of the modern book industry. It
will also give an overview of those phenomena -- the William Morris and the
modern fine press movement, artists' books, the rise of book-clubs and
organized bibliophily -- which have arisen to oppose this
industrialization. This course, the third in the new RBS sequence of
history of the book courses beginning with The Book in the Manuscript Era
(H-020) and continuing with The Printed Book in the West to 1800 (H - 030),
will be offered for the first time in 2002. Instructor: Eric Holzenberg.
ERIC HOLZENBERG is Director and Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York
City. He is the author of The Middle Hill Press (1997).
21. THE PRINTED BOOK IN THE WEST TO 1800 (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 11-15). The
introduction and spread of printing in Europe; the development of book
design and illustration; the rise of the publishing industry; freedom and
the regulation of the press; the increase in literacy and its social
consequences; the traffic in printed matter and the growth of personal and
institutional collections; the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
Intended for those who have a limited background -- but a considerable
interest -- in the history of the book, and who expect, sooner or later, to
take the other two courses in this sequence, The Book in the Manuscript Era
(H-020) and The Printed Book in the West since 1800 (H-040). Instructor:
Martin Antonetti.
MARTIN ATONETTI became Curator of Rare Books at Smith College in 1997,
before which he was Librarian of the Grolier Club.
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:45:21 -0000
From: lee jackson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Dickens's Dictionary online
Dickens's Dictionary, 1879 (first edition), a guidebook to Victorian London
compiled by Charles Dickens (junior) is now online as an etext at
ww.victorianlondon.org under Publications - Directories.
The direct link is
http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/dictionary.htm
The text is in HTML with the option of a (3.7 MB!) zipped Word download, if
you want the full thing to "cut out and keep"! Tables of church services,
postal districts and omnibus timetables have been left as additional
graphics (too fiddly, even for me!) but 99% of the content is there as plain
text and searchable. Apologies if any errors - please let me know if you
spot anything. Equally, let me know if you find it useful or have anything
to add to the Victorian Dictionary site. Much of the menu now points to the
Dickens Dictionary entries, but other novelties will follow within the
month!
regards,
Lee
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:29:07 -0800
From: Melissa Kort <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Help! Dating Twist
Help! I am far from my books and files at the moment, but need to
establish an approximate date for the action in OLIVER TWIST, particularly
when Oliver first arrives at Brownlow's house.
Many thanks.
Melissa Kort
Santa Rosa Junior College
P.S. I am still looking for London accomodation September - December 2002,
for myself, husband, and six year old son. We'll need at least two
bedrooms. I'll be teaching in Bloomsbury for the fall. Many thanks for
any leads.
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