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30/1/1858

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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 the Sixteenth Volume of Household Words
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Strike!

6/2/1858

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Political Commentary i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Great Britain—Politics and Government
Railroads
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
Transportation; Horse-Drawn Vehicles; Cab and Omnibus Service; Ballooning
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Author Edmund Saul Dixon
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
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Author James Payn
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Popular Culture; Amusements
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Author John Lang
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Great Britain—Colonies—Administration
Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
India—Description and Travel
India—Politics and Government
India—Social Life and Customs
Law; Lawyers; Justice; Courts; Trials
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Hinduism
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
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Author Adelaide Anne Procter
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
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Author Henry Morley
Genres Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Digest; Review i
Subjects Biography
Character; Character Sketches; Caricature
Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Great Britain—History
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The LIfe of David Haggart ... Written by Himself, While under Sentence of Death, 1821.

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6/2/1858

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subject Other
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Advertisement for the Sixteenth Volume of Household Words
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Advertisements

6/2/1858

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Subject Other
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Advertisement for the Christmas Number of Household Words
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Give Us Room!

13/2/1858

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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Essay i
Prose: Leading Article i
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Fashion; Fashion History; Clothing and Dress; Millinery; Textile Crafts; Textile Design; Cotton; Cotton Manufacture
Gender Identity; Women; Men; Femininity; Masculinity
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
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Author Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Europe—Description and Travel
Europe—Social Life and Customs
Popular Culture; Amusements
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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My First Patron

13/2/1858

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Author Charles Allston Collins
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
Friendship
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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The Shell-Moth

13/2/1858

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Author John Robertson
Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subject Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Sleep

13/2/1858

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Author [?] Harris
Genre Poetry: Elegy i
Subjects Children; Childhood; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Child Rearing; Adoption; Child Labor
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Author William Leycester
Genre Prose: History i
Subjects Asia—History
France—History
International relations; International trade; Diplomacy;
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Author John Hollingshead
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Great Britain—Commerce
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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Author John Lang
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects India—Description and Travel
India—Social Life and Customs
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Report i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subject Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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In two earlier HW articles Dickens had mocked the current craze for Spiritualism and Spiritualist seances which originated in America and began flourishing in England in the early 1850s.

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Author John Lang
Genre Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Colonies—Administration
Great Britain—Colonies—Description and Travel
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
India—Description and Travel
India—Social Life and Customs
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Author John Hollingshead
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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