Social Life in England 1750-1850 by F. J. Foakes-Jackson (1855 - 1941)
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In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces the mordant rural poet, George Crabbe, who began life as a surgeon apothecary and ended up as a parish rector who made house calls. He gives us a female convict, assorted Cambridge University dons, Regency fops and rakes, and Victorian slices of life from Dickens and Thackeray. In the last lecture we barrel...
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Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 1
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Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 2
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Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 3
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Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 1
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Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 2
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Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 3
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Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 4
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Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 1
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Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 2
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Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 1
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Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 2
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Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 3
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Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 1
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Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 2
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Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 3
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Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 1
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Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 2
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Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 3
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Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 1
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Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 2