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Tables of Contents for Portable Victorian Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
 
Gordon S. Haight
Biographical List of Authors
xliii
 
Suggestions for Further Reading
xlvi
 
PART ONE: THE VICTORIANS
The Two Nations: The Rich
An Address to King William
3
3
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Old England before the Reform Bill
6
7
George Eliot
Lord Monmouth after the Reform Bill
13
6
Benjamin Disraeli
Victoria Becomes Queen
19
1
Queen Victoria
Count D'Orsay Calls on Mrs. Carlyle
20
2
Jane Welsh Carlyle
The Two Nations
22
1
Benjamin Disraeli
Unworking Aristocracy
23
6
Thomas Carlyle
The New Generation
29
8
Benjamin Disraeli
The Dedlocks
37
11
Charles Dickens
Queen Victoria's Jubilee
The Times
43
5
The Two Nations: The Poor
The Condition of England
48
6
Thomas Carlyle
A Liberal Landlord
54
6
George Eliot
Slums in Manchester
60
7
Friedrich Engels
Child Labor in the Mines
67
2
Friedrich Engels
The Rural Town of Marney
69
4
Benjamin Disraeli
The Men Who Are Eaten
73
4
Charles Kingsley
A Village Workhouse in 1830
77
7
George Eliot
A London Workhouse in 1850
84
8
Charles Dickens
A Watercress Girl
92
4
Henry Mayhew
Fever in Manchester
96
15
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mrs. Pardiggle Visits the Brickmakers
111
4
Charles Dickens
Cheap Clothes and Nasty
115
13
Charles Kingsley
The Philistines
Dodson Protestantism
128
12
George Eliot
The Veneerings
140
6
Charles Dickens
Podsnappery
146
5
Charles Dickens
Millbank
151
8
Benjamin Disraeli
Captains of Industry
159
5
Thomas Carlyle
The Railway Mania
164
6
Samuel Smiles
A Lucky Speculator
170
6
William Makepeace Thackeray
Mr. Bounderby
176
3
Charles Dickens
Traffic
179
11
John Ruskin
Sweetness and Light
190
15
Matthew Arnold
Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
205
8
Matthew Arnold
PART TWO: REFORM
Parliamentary Reform
Representatives for London
213
10
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Passage of the First Reform Bill
The Times
218
5
Elections
Polling in the Midlands, 1832
223
8
George Eliot
The People's Charter
The Six Points
231
7
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Supply and Demand
Working Aristocarcy
238
7
Thomas Carlyle
Labour Laws
Women and Children in the Mines
245
2
Harriet Martineau
The Ten-Hours Bill
247
7
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Labor Laws and the Clergy
254
4
Karl Marx
Labor Unions
Collective Bargaining
258
5
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Prisons
A Visit to Newgate
263
8
Charles Dickens
Slavery
Origins of the Slave Trade
271
10
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Abolition in the British Colonies
The Times
276
5
First Sight of Slavery in 1834
281
5
Harriet Martineau
Slavery at Richmond in 1842
286
2
Charles Dickens
Letters from Washington in 1853
288
3
William Makepeace Thackeray
A Letter from Savannah in 1858
291
5
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Socialism
The Roots of Honour
296
4
John Ruskin
Incentive in a Communist Society
300
9
William Morris
PART THREE: RELIGION
The Evangelicals
Evangelicalism at Milby in 1830
309
8
George Eliot
A Word on the May-Meetings
317
2
Punch
Mr. Brocklehurst's Catechism
319
5
Charlotte Bronte
The Sabbath Laws
324
4
Charles Dickens
Bishop Proudie's Chaplain, Mr. Slope
328
2
Anthony Trollope
Mrs. Proudie on Sabbath Travelling
330
5
Anthony Trollope
The Simeonites in 1858
335
11
Samuel Butler
The Tractarians
My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833
346
14
John Henry Newman
Tract 90
360
3
John Henry Newman
Newman's Preaching at St. Mary's
363
2
Matthew Arnold
The Liberals
Rugby Chapel
365
3
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The Everlasting Yea
368
9
Thomas Carlyle
The Hero as Divinity
377
6
Thomas Carlyle
The Agnostics
The Higher Criticism
383
5
David Friedrich Strauss
Is Genesis True?
388
7
John William Colenso
PART FOUR: EDUCATION
Ignorance of the Working Class
395
4
Friedrich Engels
Lowood: A Charity School
399
7
Charlotte Bronte
Dotheboys Hall: A Yorkshire School
406
5
Charles Dickens
Dr. Blimber's Academy: Forcing
411
5
Charles Dickens
A Clerical Tutor
416
3
George Eliot
Nothing but Facts
419
8
Charles Dickens
Home Education
427
11
John Stuart Mill
Football at Rugby
438
6
Thomas Hughes
Friendship Tested
444
5
Thomas Hughes
The True University
449
3
Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge Its Own End
452
12
John Henry Newman
A Definition of a Gentleman
464
4
John Henry Newman
Oxford, the Home of Lost Causes
468
2
Matthew Arnold
A Liberal Education
470
9
Thomas Henry Huxley
The Colleges of Unreason
479
4
Samuel Butler
Science and Culture
483
7
Thomas Henry Huxley
Literature and Science
490
7
Matthew Arnold
PART FIVE: SCIENCE
Geology
Man in the Geological Record
497
10
Charles Lyell
Evolution
The Origin of the Animated Tribes
507
6
Robert Chambers
Special Creation or Modification?
513
6
Herbert Spencer
The Struggle for Existence
519
11
Charles Darwin
Physiology
Protoplasm, the Physical Basis of Life
530
8
Thomas Henry Huxley
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Prince Albert's Triumph
538
4
Queen Victoria
Punch Attends the Opening
542
3
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Conquest of Space
From Liverpool to Manchester in 1830
545
5
Samuel Smiles
The Threat of the Machines
The Book of the Machines
550
13
Samuel Butler
PART SIX: HISTORY, THE ARTS, AND LETTERS
Charlotte Corday
563
7
Thomas Carlyle
The Stars and Stripes
570
4
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Pre-Raphaelites
574
12
David Masson
Characteristics of Gothic Architecture
586
9
John Ruskin
The Love of Clouds
595
7
John Ruskin
The Pathetic Fallacy
602
6
John Ruskin
Realism
608
5
George Eliot
The Function of Criticism
613
13
Matthew Arnold
The Mona Lisa
626
2
Walter Pater
Art for Art's Sake
628
4
Walter Pater
Style
632
8
Walter Pater
Degas
640
7
George Moore
The Critic as Artist
647
 
Oscar Wilde