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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Crimean War, 1853-1856
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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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The 'famous golden calf' Dickens refers to in paragraph 2 was George Hudson, the so-called 'Railway King', who had been much courted by the upper classes anxious to obtain shares during the 'railway mania' of 1844-1847 (see Punch cartoon, 'King Hudson's Levee', 29 November 1845) and became MP for Sunderland in 1845.

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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Coats and Trousers

3/11/1855

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Author Samuel Sidney
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Europe—Commerce
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
Great Britain—Commerce
Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing; Factories; Factory Management; Industrial Waste
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
United States—Commerce
World—Commerce
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Author Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Crimean War, 1853-1856
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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The Porcupine Club

3/11/1855

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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Africa, North—Description and Travel
Africa, North—Social Life and Customs
Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Jules Gérard, La Chasse au Lion, first pub. 1854.

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Author William Moy Thomas
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Country Life; Rural Conditions; Rural Conditions in Literature; Rural Development
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
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