... on this project, including Angela Burdett Coutts and Dr Thomas Southwood Smith. His chief contributions were bureaucratic, and, contemporaneously with this work, he explored tensions between the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of paperwork in Bleak House. Thus, this chapter suggests...

... railway Staplehurst railway accident ‘Uncommercial Traveller’ essays in All the Year Round Wittgenstein Ludwig Our Mutual Friend All the Year Round childhood A Christmas Carol Angela Burdett Coutts Charles Dickens Guild of Literature and Art Old Curiosity Shop Pictures from Italy George...

... in Nicholas Nickleby serial publication suspense Barnaby Rudge improvisation melodrama A Christmas Carol Angela Burdett Coutts George Cruikshank Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Old Curiosity Shop Our Mutual Friend Pictures from Italy Sketches by Boz A Tale of Two Cities Characters are what...

... Carol Wilkie Collins Angela Burdett Coutts Charles Dickens Dickensian Dombey and Son John Forster Bret Harte Sketches by Boz A Tale of Two Cities He became an adjective in his own lifetime. The Oxford English Dictionary cites 1856 for its first appearance. As we might expect...

... and Charles misogyny ‘wild’ animals unprotected for much of the nineteenth century Dicky Bird Society Angela Burdett-Coutts historiography of animal protection Christianity bullbaiting anthropocentrism William Windham In 1893 the Chicago World’s Fair became the first international exhibition...

... ideals. Sir Arthur Helps in Some Talk about Animals (1873) discerned the differences between male and female attitudes to animal suffering – women being much more impulsively compassionate. The book’s dedicatee, Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts, was the most influential of all female...