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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 167
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Author William Allingham
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subject Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 167
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Holiday Times

4/6/1853

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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Christmas; New Year; Holidays and Seasonal Celebrations
France—Social Life and Customs
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
National Characteristics; Nationalism
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 167
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: History i
Subject Great Britain—History
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Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.

Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 167
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Advertisements

4/6/1853

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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Advertisement for A Child's History of England
Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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The Noble Savage

11/6/1853

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Africa—Social Life and Customs
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
United States—Social Life and Customs
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Dickens was provoked into writing this article by the renewed public enthusiasm for the eighteenth-century concept of 'the noble savage', of a 'purer' moral nature to be found in dark-skinned races who had not been 'corrupted' by civilisation. This enthusiasm was given a focus by the latest show presenting native Africans to be staged in London, a party of 'Zulu Kaffirs' brought over by A. T. Caldecott, a merchant from Natal, which had been annexed to Cape Colony by the British in 1843. The troupe consisting of eleven men, one woman and a child, appeared at the fashionable St George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner, and performed scenes illustrative of daily life in their native environment enlivened with 'characteristic dances'. The Times announced the event (18 May 1853) as 'a novel and most interesting exhibition with appropriate scenery and moving panorama painted expressly by Mr Charles Marshall'. 

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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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Author John Lang
Genres Prose: Short Fiction i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Colonies—General
India—Social Life and Customs
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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A Bowl of Punch

11/6/1853

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Author Peter Cunningham
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—History
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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A French Audience

11/6/1853

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Author John Oxenford
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
France—Social Life and Customs
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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Eleusinia

11/6/1853

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Author Edmund Ollier
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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Dolls

11/6/1853

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Author George Dodd
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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Author Henry Morley
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subject Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 168
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Dunkerque Tower

11/6/1853

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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subject France—Description and Travel
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Canvass Town

18/6/1853

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Author Richard H. Horne
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Australia—Description and Travel; New Zealand—Description and Travel
Australia—Social Life and Customs; New Zealand—Social Life and Customs
Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Author George Dodd
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Inventors; Inventions
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
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Based largely on The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester (1825 ed.).

Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Authors Henry Morley
James White
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Country Life; Rural Conditions; Rural Conditions in Literature; Rural Development
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Author William Allingham
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Author Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subject International relations; International trade; Diplomacy;
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Author W. H. Clarke
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Colonies—General
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Arcadia

18/6/1853

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Author George Augustus Sala
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Great Britain—Commerce
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Household Words > Volume VII > Magazine No. 169
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: History i
Subject Great Britain—History
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Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.


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