Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and CountryEscott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country
Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
FINES, in factories, disapproval of, 154;
lists of, compelled to be displayed in buildings, 155.
FISCAL Reforms, effects of, of Cobden, Bright and Peel, 16.
FITZWILLIAM, Earl, descended from a Lord Mayor of London, 14.
FOOTBALL, popularity of, 416;
a recent growth, 416;
feuds among players at, 416;
dangers of a referee at modern matches, 416.
FOREIGNERS, resident in England, over 200,000, 222;
number of, doubled in twenty years, 222;
majority of, engaged in business, 222;
and nearly one-half of total number in London, 222;
European, about 170,000, 224;
American, about 26,000, 224;
remainder Asiatics or Africans, 224;
proportion of males to females among, 224;
distribution and employments of, 226;
pauperism amongst, 226;
small proportion of, employed as clerks, 227;
opinions of, on changes in appearance of English people in twenty
years, 152.
FOREIGN intelligence, no longer dependent on telegrams, 386;
vast machinery and expenditure for supply of, 386.
FRANCE, industry in, effects of revolution on, 21;
all classes in, involved in common ruin, as a consequence of
revolution, 21.
FREE Libraries, establishment of, 362;
popularity of, 363;
sketches of working-men students at, 364;
origin and gradual growth of, 365;
the Chetham Library, 365;
the Guildhall Library, 365;
the Manchester Library, 365;
the Ewart Act, and its relation to, 365;
growth of metropolitan free libraries, 366;
examination of books most in demand at the, 368.
FUSION of classes, product of Victorian era, 114;
and keynote of our epoch, 201;
a process of levelling up, not down, 201.
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GALLOWS, in public highways until Lord Grey's Reform Act, 40.
GAMBLING, committee on, in 1844, 410;
number of, hells in 1841, 411;
'Crockfords' as a, club, 411;
'play and pay,' abolished 412.
GLADSTONE, W. E., and Sir Robert Peel, comparative popularity of, 10;
scheme of, for converting consols in 1853, 22.
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