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A Flight

30/8/1851

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Railroads
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Dickens first travelled to Paris by the South Eastern Railway's new 'Double Special Express Service' in 1850, travelling overnight from London Bridge Station on 22/23 June and arriving in Paris at 8.45 a.m. He wrote to Forster: 'The twelve hours' journey here is astounding – marvellously done, except in the means of refreshment, which are absolutely none' (Pilgrim, Vol. VI, p. 118). He went again (also overnight) on 10/11 February 1851 on HW business. He draws on memories of these journeys to convey what he later called, still in relation to this particular train service, 'that queer sensation born of quick travelling' (Pilgrim, Vol. VII, p. 464), but also, it seems, on those 'Paris-trip notes' of Will's (Wills had made a lightning visit to Paris on 28/30 July) that he said he was waiting for on 10 August.

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Author Harriet Martineau
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—General
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Author Mr. [?] Harper
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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A Day at Waterloo

30/8/1851

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Author William Howitt
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—History
Great Britain—History
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Lambs to Be Fed

30/8/1851

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Author James Hannay
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Report i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Author Theodore Alois William Buckley
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Church of England
Religion—Christianity—General
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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