The book is written in a clear and engaging style that makes it accessible to both scholars and general readers interested in the intersection of literature and society during this period.

After moving to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens's magazine, Household Words, and later dramatic critic for the Observer and the Whitehall Review.

An examination of Irish society and politics, providing a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the middle classes in Irish political life and the public sphere accrosss the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Plotting theatrical change over time, from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

Reproduction of the original: Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Fitzgerald

Based on original sources, this study charts the development of modern Irish socialism from the influence of William Thompson, Marx and the First International, challenging the myth that socialism emerged with James Connolly and the ...

Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes.

Clarence Seward Darrow's "War Prisoners" from the 1910s provides a gripping account of the experiences of prisoners during wartime.