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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Politics and Government
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Dickens here lampoons the Prime Minister, the seventy-year-old Earl of Aberdeen, a Peelite Tory who had also at times supported the Whigs (hence the reference at the end of paragraph 4 to his earlier 'contortion').

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Field Service

25/11/1854

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Author [?] Sharp
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Crimean War, 1853-1856
Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Based largely on John Henry Lefroy, Handbook for Field Service (1854).

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Rag Fair in Paris

25/11/1854

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Author Dudley Costello
Genres Prose: Report i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
France—Description and Travel
France—History
France—Social Life and Customs
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
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Author John Capper
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Two Sonnets

25/11/1854

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Author [?] Osborne
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Escapes; Fugitives from Justice—Fiction
Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Friendship
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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25/11/1854

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Author George Augustus Sala
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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25/11/1854

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
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