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
WAKEFIELD, Gibbon, sketch of his career, 433;
his _Art of Colonization_, 433.
WARD, Samuel, sketch of, 437;
nicknamed 'Uncle Sam,' 438;
founds a social and literary Anglo-American school, 438.
WARWICK, Earl of, descended from Sir Samuel Dashwood, vintner, a Lord
Mayor of London, 15.
WATKIN, Sir Edward, exceptional position of, 37.
WEALTH, aristocracy of, unknown before 1851, 42.
WELLINGTON, Duke of, personal sketch of, 4;
popular respect shown to, at all times, 10.
WHEWELL, Dr, historian of the Inductive Sciences, 325.
WINDSOR, compared with Weimar, 323.
WORKING Men's Club, established at Lancaster in 1860, 118;
and Institute Union, functions of, 126;
founded by Lords Brougham and Lyttleton, 118.
WORKING Men's College, Great Ormond Street, 118;
founded by Maurice and Thomas Hughes, 118.
Y
YOUTH, change in figure and appearance of English, 202;
improved expression on countenances of, 203;
taller and better set up, 203;
women as well as men, 203;
lofty stature and Junonian majesty of modern English feminine, 203.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Edited by Dr Ernst Regel--Berlin, 1894.
[2] The grandfather of the fifth Marquess. As Lord Henry Petty, he had so
long since as 1806 been Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1848 he was
President of the Council, and led the peers in the Russell Government.
Died 1863.
[3] But much of the Forest being saved by the Common rights had not at any
time been enclosed.
[4] _The Age of Gold_, vol. i. p. 37.
[5] While these lines are being prepared for the press there appears in a
London newspaper a statement of the prices current at the Western
Australia gold fields in the summer of 1896. They may be compared with the
figures given in the text and are as follows:--Tea 3s., flour 10d., sugar
1s., bacon 3s., beef and mutton 4d. to 8d., cheese 2s. 6d., coffee 3s.,
tobacco 8s., and preserved potatoes 1s. 9d. per lb.; milk (condensed) 1s.
9d. per tin; flour 20s. per 50 lbs.; and eggs 10s. a dozen; but the cost
of living generally, as compared with earnings, is low. On the Ashburton
River gold fields mutton is 4d., beef 6d., flour 10d., tea 3s., sugar 9d.
to 1s., preserved potatoes 1s. 6d., salt 1s., rice 1s., and oatmeal 1s.
3d. per lb. On the Yilgarn gold fields meat is 9d. to 1s. a lb., flour
10s. to 30s. per 50 lb. bag, tea 3s. 6d. a lb., and other provisions are
equally scarce and dear. At Coolgardie, to the east of Yilgarn, flour
costs £3 per 200 lbs., bread 1s. per 1-1/2 lb. loaf, butter 2s. 3d. per
lb., potatoes 6d. per lb., sugar 8d. per lb., tinned milk 1s. 3d. per lb.,
bacon 1s. 9d. per lb., salt 6d. per lb., and board and lodgings £3 to £7 a
week. On the Murchison gold fields in the North, the prices per lb. are:
Flour 8d., sugar 8d., tea 3s. 6d., tobacco 6d., fish 1s. 6d., mutton 8d.,
beef 8d., butter 3s., and tinned meats 1s. 3d.
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