Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Introduction: Victorian Print Media and the Reading Public, Mary
Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
LIFE WRITING
- Introduction, David Amigoni
William Dodd, from A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of
William Dodd, A Factory Cripple (1841)
Alexander Somerville, from The Autobiography of a Working Man
(1848)
John Stuart Mill, from Autobiography (1873)
Harriet Martineau, from Autobiography (1877)
Anthony Trollope, from An Autobiography (1883)
John Ruskin, from Praeterita (1885–89)
Annie Besant, from Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893)
Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis (written 1897; published 1905)
Edmund Gosse, from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
(1907)
Beatrice Webb, from My Apprenticeship (1926)
THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND SOCIAL
REFORM
- Introduction, Dan Bivona
Harriet Martineau, from Illustrations of Political Economy
(1832–34)
Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present (1843)
- from “Gospel of Mammonism”
from “Captains of Industry”
Friedrich Engels, from The Condition of the Working Class in
England in 1844 (1845; trans. 1887)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from Manifesto of the Communist
Party (1848; trans. 1888)
Charles Dickens, from “A Walk in a Workhouse” (1850)
Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (1859)
John Ruskin, from Unto This Last (1860)
Octavia Hill, from “Blank Court; or, Landlords and Tenants”
(1871)
William Booth, from In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)
EDUCATION
- Introduction, Janice Schroeder
Thomas Arnold, from “On the Discipline of Public Schools”
(1835)
Harriet Martineau, from Retrospect of Western Travel (1838)
Mary Carpenter, from Reformatory Schools, for the Children of the
Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders
(1851)
John Henry Newman, from Discourses on the Scope and Nature of
University Education Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin
(1852)
Henry Morley and Geraldine Jewsbury, from “Instructive Comparisons”
(1855)
Frederick Denison Maurice, from Learning and Working: Six Lectures
Delivered in Willis’s Rooms, London, in June and July, 1854
(1855)
Matthew Arnold, from “Art. VIII.—The Functions of Criticism at the
Present Time” (1864)
Emily Davies, from The Higher Education of Women (1866)
Henry Maudsley, from “Sex in Mind and in Education” (1874)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, from “Sex in Mind and Education: A
Reply” (1874)
John Churton Collins, from “An Educational Crisis, and How to Avert
It.—II” (1886)
William Morris, from “English at the Universities” (1886)
John Addington Symonds, from “English at the Universities.—III.”
(1886)
Walter Pater, from “English at the Universities.—IV.” (1886)
Matthew Arnold, from “English at the Universities.—IX.” (1887)
James Anthony Froude, from “English at the Universities.—IX.”
(1887)
AESTHETICS AND CULTURE
- Introduction, Dennis Denisoff
John Ruskin, from The Stones of Venice (1851–53)
Anna Jameson, from Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the
Fine Arts (1852)
George Eliot, from Adam Bede (1859)
Matthew Arnold, from “Culture and Its Enemies” (1867)
Walter Pater, from Studies in the History of the Renaissance
(1873)
William Morris, from Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
James McNeill Whistler, from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock”
(1885)
Oscar Wilde, from “The Critic as Artist” (1891)
Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, from “Beauty and
Ugliness” (1897)
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- Introduction, Susan Hamilton
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England: Their Social
Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain
Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women; Together
with a Few Observations Thereon (1854)
Florence Nightingale, from Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers
after Truth among the Artizans of England (1860)John Ruskin, from
Sesame and Lilies (1865)
John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
Thomas Hughes, from The Manliness of Christ (1879)
William Thomas Stead, from “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon”
(1885)
Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888)
John Addington Symonds, from A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891)
Havelock Ellis, from Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual
Inversion (1897)
FAITH AND DOUBT
- Introduction, Catherine Harland
Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr
Teufelsdröckh (1833–34)
- from “The Everlasting No”
from “Centre of Indifference”
from “The Everlasting Yea”
Benjamin Jowett, from “On the Interpretation of Scripture”
(1860)
John William Colenso, from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua
Critically Examined (1862)
John Henry Newman, from Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864)
Leslie Stephen, from “An Agnostic’s Apology” (1876)
Vernon Lee, from “The Responsibilities of Unbelief: A Conversation
between Three Rationalists” (1883)
Frances Power Cobbe, from “Agnostic Morality” (1883)
SCIENCE
- Introduction, Bernard Lightman
Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to
Explain the Former Changes of the Earth’s Surface, by Reference to
Causes Now in Operation (1830)
Charles Bell, from The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as
Evincing Design (1833)
Mary Somerville, from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
(1834)
Robert Chambers, from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
(1844)
Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics: or, The Conditions Essential
to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed
(1850)
Philip Henry Gosse, from Evenings at the Microscope (1859)
Mary Ward, from Telescope Teachings: A Familiar Sketch of
Astronomical Discovery; Combining a Special Notice of Objects
Coming within the Range of a Small Telescope, Illustrated by the
Author’s Original Drawings; with a Detail of the Most Interesting
Discoveries Which Have Been Made with the Assistance of Powerful
Telescopes, Concerning the Phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies,
Including the Recent Comet (1859)
Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle
for Life (1859)
Lydia Becker, from “On the Study of Science by Women” (1869)
Francis Galton, from Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws
and Consequences (1869)
Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation
to Sex (1871)
Richard Proctor, from “A Voyage to the Ringed Planet” (1872)
Thomas Henry Huxley, from “The Struggle for Human Existence: A
Programme” (1888)
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION
- Introduction, Laura Franey
James Holman, from A Voyage Round the World Including Travels in
Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc. etc. from 1827 to 1832
(1834)
Charles Darwin, from Journal of Researches into the Geology and
Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle,
under the Command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836
(1839)
Richard F. Burton, from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to
El-Medinah and Meccah (1855)
David Livingstone, from Missionary Travels and Researches in South
Africa (1857)
Henry Walter Bates, from The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a
Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and
Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven
Years of Travel (1863)
Emily Eden, from “Up the Country”: Letters Written to Her Sister
from the Upper Provinces of India (1866)
Alfred Russel Wallace, from The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the
Orang-utan, and theBird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with
Studies of Man and Nature (1869)
Henry M. Stanley, from How I Found Livingstone; Travels,
Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four
Months’ Residence with Dr. Livingstone (1872)
Anthony Trollope, from Australia and New Zealand (1873)
Florence Dixie, from Across Patagonia (1880)
Isabella L. Bird, from Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of
Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo
and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé (1880)
Kate Marsden, from On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian
Lepers (1891)
Mary H. Kingsley, from Travels in West Africa Congo Français,
Corisco and Cameroon (1897)
About the Author
Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa
Surridge are Associate Professor and Professor of English,
respectively, at the University of Victoria.
Reviews
“A cause for celebration! With its judiciously chosen examples of
life writing, travel memoirs, and social commentary, its glorious
illustrations, and captivating selection of materials related to
aesthetics, evolution, eugenics, and sexuality, this anthology will
be a blessing to teachers, students, and scholars interested in the
explosive growth of print media in the Victorian period.” —
Christopher Keep, University of Western Ontario