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The Sunday Screw

22/6/1850

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Communication; Telegraph; Postal Service
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Popular Culture; Amusements
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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From the time of his 1836 Sunday Under Three Heads (Vol. 1 of [The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism], pp. 475–99), Dickens took a strongly anti-Sabbatarian stance. [...] The following article was provoked by the success of Lord Ashley's motion in the House of Common on 30 May (carried by a majority of ninety-three votes to sixty-eight), asking for an Address to the Crown to end all Sunday collections and deliveries of letters throughout the country; the measure was due to come into effect on 23 June. The Postmaster-General, Rowland Hill, had been trying to accommodate Sabbatarian criticisms of Sunday working, but his plans had been misunderstood and also deliberately misrepresented; this resulted in increased pressure from the powerful and energetic Sabbatarian lobby for the total abolition of all Sunday postal services and the success of Ashley's motion (for a full discussion of all this, see Norris Pope, Dickens and Charity [1978], p. 63f.).

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The Young Advocate

22/6/1850

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Author Catherine Crowe
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
France—Description and Travel
France—History
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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The Devil's Acre

22/6/1850

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Author Alexander Mackay
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
London (England)—Description and Travel
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Earth's Harvest

22/6/1850

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Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Great Britain—History
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Religion; Religion and Culture
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
Attachments: 0 · Links: 0 · Hits: 1902

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Authors Anon.
Richard H. Horne
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subject Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
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Author Percival Leigh
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Politics and Government
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Popular Culture; Amusements
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Genre Poetry: Other i
Subjects Civilization—Classical
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Attachments: 0 · Links: 0 · Hits: 1959

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Author Dudley Costello
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Authors Caroline Chisholm
Richard H. Horne
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Australia—Description and Travel; New Zealand—Description and Travel
Australia—Social Life and Customs; New Zealand—Social Life and Customs
Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
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Ebenezer Elliott

22/6/1850

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Author Thomas Old
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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