1. Adventures; The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley; Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne; How to Reach the Pole, article from The Graphic; Messages Without Wires, Guglielmo Marconi; A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Isabella Bird; The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells; Activities; 2. Childhood; The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; Ragged Schools, article from The Illustrated London News; A London Child of the Seventies, Molly Vivian Hughes; A Horseman in the Sky, Ambrose Bierce; War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy; Activities; 3. Urbanisation: Children in the Coal Mines: The 1842 Report, R.H. Horne; The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Narrative of a Pickpocket, Henry Mayhew; Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood; Mary Barton, Mrs Gaskell; The Disturbance in the Manufacturing Districts, article from The Illustrated London News; 1851 or the Adventures of Mr & Mrs Sandboys, Henry Mayhew; Bleak House, Charles Dickens; Activities; 4. Relationships: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens; The Son's Veto, Thomas Hardy; Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Bodichon; The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope; Definition of a Gentleman, John Henry Newman; Adam Bede, George Eliot; The Book of Household Management, Mrs Isabella Beeton; My Rights, Susan Coolidge; A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen; Activities; Notes on authors.
