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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Politics and Government
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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This article, inspired by Dickens's reading of reports sent to him by Wills of a barrister's evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on County Courts (May 1854), reads like a sort of pendant or postscript to Bleak House, though Dickens believed wehn he sent article to Wills that it was 'a new subject with us' (i.e. in HW; he was forgetting an earlier article on County Courts called 'Law at a Low Price' by Wills and W. T. Haly published in the issue for 18 May 1850).

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Author Frederick Bayle St. John
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Egypt—Description and Travel
Egypt—Social Life and Customs
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Monarchy
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
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Pilchards

23/9/1854

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Author George Dodd
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Remedy

23/9/1854

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Author Chauncy Hare Townshend
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Religion; Religion and Culture
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Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Country Life; Rural Conditions; Rural Conditions in Literature; Rural Development
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Chip: Colouring

23/9/1854

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Author Henry Morley
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
France—Description and Travel
Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing; Factories; Factory Management; Industrial Waste
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Michel E. Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, 1854.

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Authors Henry Morley
Harriet Parr
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Education—Europe; Universities and Colleges; Schools
France—Description and Travel
France—Social Life and Customs
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—Protestantism; Dissenters, Religious
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