Victorians – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 5

Dear Mr. Time

Grandfather: The Dear Mr. Time Anthology

Talia Schaffer

Communities of Care

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care , Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups th…

Sarah Bilston

The Lost Orchid

The forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environment…

David Taylor

Beats, Backstreets and Brothels

Huddersfield was one of a number of prosperous northern towns in Victorian England. The town grew dramatically in size as it became the undisputed centre of the fancy woollen trade with a world-wide reput…

Clare Paterson

The Nine Lives of Annie Besant

The sensational story of a Victorian superwoman

Charles Hohmann

A Tale of Two Brothers

From the war-torn skies over Britain during the 2nd World War, the story transports us to the blood drenched desert sands of Victorian England's campaign in the torrid Sudan and the monasteries of the Ske…

Edward Dolnick

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods , an "utterly delightful...hugely entertaining" (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered di…

Black Chronicles

A collection of extraordinary 19th-century portraits that radically shifts our understanding of the presence and identities of the Black subject in Victorian Britain.These striking studio portraits, curat…

Where The Girls Are Vol.1

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

The Chosen Race

From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art …

Mollie Walton

The Shopgirl of Ironbridge

A dramatic and heartwarming Victorian saga, perfect for fans of Maggie Hope and Anne Bennett. Will she find love again?Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered an exciting job in a …

Eliza Haweis

Flowers That Thrive in London Gardens and Smoky Towns

First published in 1886 by The Leadenhall Press -- priced at one shilling -- Flowers that Thrive in London Gardens & Smoky Towns is a charming botanical book which offers a window onto late Victorian …

Lily Cattens

The past between us

Ihr Albtraum beginnt mit einem Schritt - und endet in einer anderen Zeit ...Verraten und hoffnungslos irrt die 20-jährige Melody durch die Straßen Londons, bis sie im Jahr 1862 erwacht - gefangen in einer…

Amy L. Montz

Dressing for England

Illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture. Dressing for England argues that women's interest in fashionable clothing-in dress that appealed to a sop…

P J Brownsword,

For Valour The Complete History of The Victoria Cross Volume Four

For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Crossis the first definitive reference detailing every winner of the Victoria Cross, the highest award in the British military honor system, awarded for ga…

George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887)

Robin Hood

Nicky Spence, George Hulbert, Louis Hurst, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks, John Powell Singers, Victorian Chorus & Orchestra, Ronald Corp

Helena Esser

Steampunk London

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces an…

Liwen Zhang

Novel Pedagogy

Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres. Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious…

Charles Dickens,

Christmas Ghost Stories

Reviving the Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, Christmas Ghost Stories gathers spine-chilling classics from Dickens, Gaskell, James, and more, for some late-night Christmas re…