“players,” as well as north-south differences. Particular sports developed along class lines:tennisandgolf, at least inEngland, were played by the higher orders of society, and rugby was divided along the class lines, withrugby unionfor the higher classes and rugby league for the lower ...
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Victorian toys and games such as marbles were enjoyed by both boys and girls. Victorian marbles were usually made of glass or clay, although wealthier players had marbles made out of real marble! 19th century engraving of boys playing marbles ©antiqueimages - stock.adobe.com Tops and Jacks ...
Explore English novelist Charles Dickens's early Victorian era and literature with Clifton FadimanClifton Fadiman examining the inspiration Charles Dickens's work took from the milieu of Victorian England, with its startling contrasts of morality and hypocrisy, splendour and squalor, prosperity and poverty...
Concerned to establish "the habitus of nineteenth-century boys' clothing practice" (p. 246), Rose is frustrated by surviving garments preserved by museums, with their emphasis on special occasion and elite wear rather than everyday clothes. Her quest for alternative sources leads her, instead, ...
The Victorian period is so named because it spanned the years of the reign of Queen Victoria in England, from 1837 to 1901. The quality and form of a child’s education during that time depended upon the economic circumstances of his or her family, and also upon whether the child was a...
then Thomas Cameron was born in Scotland in 1836 or 1837. His parents’ names are not recorded on the document, and another blank space suggests that he never married. His middle name, Bedford, is likely a clue to his ancestry, even if he added it when he was a young man to distingui...
Ure to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, as without exception, the best RAT POISON. Rats cost the American FARMERS and GRAIN-MEN during the year 1878 no less than 3,784,000 dollars, and besides all this there was the loss to private individuals, Meat, Fish & Game Markets. Rats...
Performers such as Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno and Little Tich became household names and were in high demand by music halls owners to top their bills. The original railings Although most Victorian music halls are long gone, there is one that is still being used for entertainment today. Hoxton ...
Charles Dickens (born February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England—died June 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, near Chatham, Kent) was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House...