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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Life in Danger

24/3/1860

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Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Essay i
Subjects London (England)—Description and Travel
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
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Nature's Planting

24/3/1860

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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subject Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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My Maid Marian

24/3/1860

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Author Gerald Massey
Genre Poetry: Elegy i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
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Reprinted in A Tale of Eternity and Other Poems (London: Strahan, 1870).

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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Railroads
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Titled 'Refreshments for Travellers' in The Uncommercial Traveller, Vol. 1 (1860, 1863). 

The French idea of a 'restaurant' to refresh and restore travellers of both sexes during a journey, was still foreign to British cities in 1860, but the end of March saw the second reading of Gladstone's 'Refreshment Houses and Wine Licensing Bill', which proposed: to let small retailers take out licences (at the discretion of the issuing magistrate) for the sale of wine to be consumed off the premises, to let eating-house keepers take out licences for the sale of wine to be consumed on the premises, and to place all eating houses under the control of the police; the Bill became law on 1 July 1860 (Refreshment Houses and Wine Licenses Act, 23 Vict. cap. 27). Dickens's paper is in one sense highly topical, anticipating a leader in The Times of 28 March, which repeats the main complaint in Dickens's essay: '[o]ne of the most grievous discomforts to which all visitors to London are exposed is the difficulty of finding in it either a dinner or a luncheon, more especially if ladies are of the party... The want is in the deficiency of small Refreshment houses where people of moderate or even humble means may procure dinner and other necessary refreshments at a [small] cost' (p. 9 cols. d-e).

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Odd Fish

24/3/1860

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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Germany—Description and Travel; Austria—Description and Travel
Germany—Social Life and Customs; Austria—Social Life and Customs
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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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