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A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
This anthology is a collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. There are four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. There are texts by Mrs Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry Mayhew, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Jules Verne and many others. Editor: Linda Marland. (264 pages)
Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning
Contents: 1. Adventures: The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley; Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne; How to Reach the Pole, article from The Graphic; Messages Without Wires, Guglielmo Marconi; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird; The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells. 2. Childhood: The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; Ragged Schools, article from The Illustrated London News; A London Child of the Seventies, Molly Vivian Hughes; A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce; War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy. 3. Urbanisation: Children in the Coal Mines: The 1842 Report, R.H. Horne; The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Narrative of a Pickpocket, Henry Mayhew; Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood; Mary Barton, Mrs Gaskell; The Disturbance in the Manufacturing Districts, article from The Illustrated London News; 1851 or the Adventures of Mr & Mrs Sandboys, Henry Mayhew; Bleak House, Charles Dickens. 4. Relationships: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens; The Son's Veto, Thomas Hardy; Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Bodichon; The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope; Definition of a Gentleman, John Henry Newman; Adam Bede, George Eliot; The Book of Household Management, Mrs Isabella Beeton; My Rights, Susan Coolidge; A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen.
Actvities: For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.