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Authors Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Popular Culture; Amusements
Railroads
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Author Henry Morley
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Latin America—Description and Travel
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Religion; Religion and Culture
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
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William P. Snow, A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, 1857.

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The Queen's Guest

31/10/1857

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Author Frederick Charles Lescelles Wraxall
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Crimean War, 1853-1856
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Captain Doineau

31/10/1857

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Author John Robertson
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Africa, North—Description and Travel
Africa, North—Social Life and Customs
Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
France—Colonies
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
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Author James Payn
Genre Prose: Sketch i
Subjects Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
London (England)—Description and Travel
Railroads
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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31/10/1857

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Other
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Advertisement for the Two-Volume Edition of The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
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31/10/1857

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Other
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Advertisement for the Fifteenth Volume of Household Words
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Author Henry Morley
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Charity; Philanthropists; Philanthropists—Fiction; Benevolence
Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—General
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Based on A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Written by Himself, in Four Parts (1837-1856).

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The Monkey-King

7/11/1857

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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Asia—Description and Travel
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
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Léon Gozlan, Les Emotions de Polydore Marasquin (1857).

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The Two Janes

7/11/1857

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Author James Payn
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: History i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Fame; Famous People; Celebrity
Great Britain—History
Imagination
Monarchy
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Author John Hollingshead
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Great Britain—Commerce
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Europe—Description and Travel
Europe—Social Life and Customs
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Author Otto von Corvin
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Report i
Subjects Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Physical Sciences (Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Geography / Mathematics / Metallurgy / Physics)
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Cat's Grease

7/11/1857

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Author John Oxenford
Genre Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Based on Gottfried Keller, 'Spiegel, das Kätzchen', Die Leute von Seldwyla (1856).

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7/11/1857

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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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1) Advertisement for the Fifteenth Volume of Household Words.
2) Advertisement for The Dead Secret.

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Author John Lang
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
India—Description and Travel
India—Politics and Government
India—Social Life and Customs
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
Violence; Torture; Violence in Literature; Violence—Moral and Ethical Aspects; Violence—Psychological Aspects
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Polarisation

14/11/1857

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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Physical Sciences (Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Geography / Mathematics / Metallurgy / Physics)
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Lyndon Hall [i]

14/11/1857

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Author Eliza Lynn Linton
Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
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Author James Payn
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Author Anon.
Subjects Australia—Description and Travel; New Zealand—Description and Travel
Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
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From William B. Ullathorne, The Catholic Mission in Australasia, first pub. 1836.

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