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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Precious Metals; Precious Stones; Gold; Gold Mines and Mining; Mines and Mineral Resources; Minerals; Metals; Quarries and Quarrying
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Goodman Misery

13/6/1868

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Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
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Bookmaking

13/6/1868

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Author Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Yesterday

13/6/1868

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Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Monarchy
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
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Genres Prose: Report i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
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Author Harriet Parr
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Education; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Attribution: reprinted in Holme Lee, Country Stories, Old and New: In Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872).

 

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Advertisements

13/6/1868

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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1) Advertisement for a Farewell Series of Readings by Mr. Charles Dickens.
2) Advertisement for the Nineteenth Volume.

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Precious Metals; Precious Stones; Gold; Gold Mines and Mining; Mines and Mineral Resources; Minerals; Metals; Quarries and Quarrying
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Birds-Eye Paris

20/6/1868

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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
France—Social Life and Customs
Music; Musical Instruments; Songs; Singing; Opera
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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(Title sic, with no apostrophe in 'Bird's-Eye').

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Lunar Assistance

20/6/1868

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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Communication; Telegraph; Postal Service
Great Britain—Politics and Government
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Something Left

20/6/1868

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Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Author Harriet Parr
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Education; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Attribution: reprinted in Holme Lee, Country Stories, Old and New: In Prose and Verse, 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872).

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Advertisements

20/6/1868

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
Popular Culture; Amusements
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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1) Advertisement for a Farewell Series of Readings by Mr. Charles Dickens.
2) Advertisement for the Nineteenth Volume.

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Police; Detectives; Mystery and Detective Stories; Mystery; Mystery Fiction; Forensic Sciences
Precious Metals; Precious Stones; Gold; Gold Mines and Mining; Mines and Mineral Resources; Minerals; Metals; Quarries and Quarrying
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
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Genre Prose: Report i
Subject Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
United States—Description and Travel
United States—Social Conditions
United States—Social Life and Customs
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Based largely on Thomas J. Dimsdale, The Vigilantes of Montana: or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains, being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, capture, trial and execution of Henry Plummer's road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West" (Virginia City, Montana Territory: Montana Post Press, D.W. Tilton & Co., 1866).

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