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Royal Treasures

20/9/1856

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Author Dudley Costello
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
France—Description and Travel
France—History
Museums; Palaces; Exhibitions; Libraries
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Based on Léon E. S. J. de Laborde, Notice des émaux bijoux et objets divers, exposés dans les galeries du Musée du Louvre (1853).

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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Based on Charles Johnson, British Poisonous Plants (1856).

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Author James Payn
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—General
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Sea-Gardens [ii]

27/9/1856

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Author John Robertson
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Part of a series of articles on marine life by Robertson in this volume, see also: 'Seaside Eggs', (HW, XIV, No. 335); ' 'Under-Water Existence' (HW, XIV, No. 344); and 'The Purple Shore' (HW, XIV, No. 346).

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Dick Dallington

27/9/1856

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Author Samuel Sidney
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Friendship
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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;
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author Samuel Sidney
Genre Prose: History i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Machinery; Machinery in the Workplace; Machinery Industry; Machinery Industry—Automation
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An Autumn Shadow

27/9/1856

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Author Harriet Parr
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Quiet People

27/9/1856

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Author John Abraham Heraud
Genres Prose: Short Fiction i
Prose: Sketch i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
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Author R. [?] Wilson
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—History
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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A Flat Walk

27/9/1856

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Author Robert Barnabus Brough
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
France—Description and Travel
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Author George Augustus Sala
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Europe—Description and Travel
Europe—Social Life and Customs
Germany—Description and Travel; Austria—Description and Travel
Germany—Social Life and Customs; Austria—Social Life and Customs
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Railroads
Russia—Description and Travel
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Black and Blue

4/10/1856

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Author John Lang
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
India—Description and Travel
India—Social Life and Customs
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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A Wife's Pardon

4/10/1856

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Author Marguerite Agnes Power
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Commerce
Industries; Industrial Revolution—Great Britain; Industrialization; Industrial Safety; Industrial Laws and Legislation; Industrial Welfare; Industrial Relations;
Inventors; Inventions
Physical Sciences (Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Geography / Mathematics / Metallurgy / Physics)
Precious Metals; Precious Stones; Gold; Gold Mines and Mining; Mines and Mineral Resources; Minerals; Metals; Quarries and Quarrying
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Mad Dancing

4/10/1856

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Author Louisa Stuart Costello
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Europe—Description and Travel
Europe—Social Life and Customs
France—Description and Travel
France—Social Life and Customs
Popular Culture; Amusements
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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The Murdered Person

11/10/1856

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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William Dove of Leeds was found guilty at the York Assizes on 21 July 1856 of murdering his wife by strychnine poisoning.

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The World Unseen

11/10/1856

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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
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Salome and I [i]

11/10/1856

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Author Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Charity; Philanthropists; Philanthropists—Fiction; Benevolence
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Friendship
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Chapters I-II.

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Author George Augustus Sala
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Russia—Description and Travel
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
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Author Friend of Eliza Lynn Linton
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects People with Disabilities; Human Body—Social Aspects; Human Bodies in Literature
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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