Week
II:
Excerpts on the economy, from Charlotte Brontȅ, Shirley (1849, set 1811-12)
G.W.E. Russell, Collections and Recollections (1898), chapters VII-X. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11665
Week
IV:
Selections from "Oliver Twist"
Selections from the Sadler Report : Go to "Parliamentary Papers" on the library database list, and Paper Title search box look for a paper called "Report from the Committee on the Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom". Load the full-text pdf and read the part of Matthew Crabtree's testimony on pp. 93-98.
Selections from Lovett's Struggles
Selections from Lovett and Collins, Chartism (read from p. vi in the preface to then end of p. 7 in the main book):
http://books.google.com/books?id=P5UgAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=chartism+lovett+collins&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wa6TUsb1NsbpoAS-sIHoAw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chartism%20lovett%20collins&f=false
Week
V:
Selections from Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859), chapter II. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/507 The html version has a live table of contents where you can click on Chapter II and go directly there.
Week
VII:
The last part of the conclusion of "The Origin of Species"
Weeks
IX and X:
https://archive.org/details/b20392758/page/960/mode/2up , sections 2153-2175, 2178-2188, 2203, 2211, 2215, 2243-2254, 2262-2263, 2282-2284, 2292-2294, 2272-2274, 2297-2400, 2437-2444.
Week
X:
Excerpts on women, from Charlotte Brontȅ, Shirley (1849, set 1811-12)
Week
XIII
from William Booth, 1890 Note: William Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army, which is where his rank of General comes from. He was not in the normal military.
Week
IX:
Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure
of the Bruce-
Partington Plans' (1912, set
in 1895): http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2346/pg2346.txt
Week
XV:
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
Write on Two. In each of your answers, develop an argument of your own, with an introduction (including thesis), body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use specific (although paraphrased) evidence from the readings and lectures. Openly consider major evidence against your views rather than merely suppressing that evidence.
1. Was there something
peculiarly British – something peculiar to themselves – about the way the
people of
2. What had the most
profound effects for 19th-century
3. Was there really a sustained pattern of elites voluntarily giving power to non-elites, and if so, why did they do it?
4. Was the wide franchise afforded by the Third Reform Bill a good idea given conditions at the time?
5. What would Dickens have thought of the late Victorian or Edwardian Ages?