Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Dinah Mulock Craik: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
John Halifax, Gentleman
Appendix A: The Idea of the “Gentleman” in Victorian Culture
- From Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son and Others (1774)
- From Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843)
- From John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University (1854)
- From Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859)
- From [James Fitzjames] F. Stephen, “Gentlemen,” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862)
Appendix B: Working Conditions and Labor Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century
- From J.E. Taylor, The Peterloo Massacre (1819)
- From William Cobbett, Rural Rides (1830)
- From Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review (June 1829)
- From Parliamentary Reports (1832-33)
- from a speech by M.T. Sadler (1832)
- from a speech by Richard Oastler, “Yorkshire Slavery” (1831-32)
- from Parliamentary Papers, volume 20 (1833)
- From Peter Gaskell, The Manufacturing Population of England (1833)
- From John Fielden, The Curse of the Factory System (1836)
- From Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845)
Appendix C: Women’s Roles in Victorian England
- From Catherine Macaulay, Letters on Education (1790)
- From Sarah Ellis, The Women of England,Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, A Woman’s Thoughts about Women (1858)
- From Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management (1861)
- From John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865)
- From John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869)
Appendix D: Reviews
- “New Novels: John Halifax, Gentleman,” Athenaeum (26 April 1856)
- From [Stopford Brooke], “Notes upon New Books: John Halifax,” Dublin University Magazine (October 1856)
- From [R.H. Hutton], “Novels by the Authoress of ‘John Halifax,’” North British Review (1858)
- From “The Author of John Halifax,” The British Quarterly Review (July 1866)
- From Robert Nourse, “An Old Book for New Readers,” The Dial (June 1883)
- From Frances Martin, “Mrs. Craik,” Athenaeum (22 October 1887)
- From S.M. Ellis, “Dinah Maria Mulock (Mrs. Craik),” The Bookman (April 1926)
Appendix E: Religious Issues
- From George Fox, Journal (1694)
- From John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions (1746)
- From Charles Lamb, “A Quakers’ Meeting,” The Essays of Elia (1823)
- From John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)
- From Mary Howitt, An Autobiography (1889)
Appendix F: Fictional Counterpoints
- From Harriet Martineau, A Manchester Strike (Illustrations of Political Economy) (1832)
- From Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849)
- From Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House (1654-62)
- From Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1855)
- From Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)
Appendix G: Table of Dates of Relevant Events and Legislation
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