The Victorian Age Illustration: Gustave Dore, Ludgate Hill 1044 THE VICTORIAN AGE AT A GLANCE 1045 INTRODUCTION 1049 VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIANS 1049 Illustration: Sunlight Soap advertisement commemorating the 1897 Jubilee of Victoria's reign 1050 THE AGE OF ENERGY AND INVENTION 1052 Illustration: Robert Howlett, Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 1053 THE AGE OF DOUBT 1055 Illustration: The Crystal Palace 1058 THE AGE OF REFORM 1059 THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1063 Illustration: The Formula of British Conquest, Pears' Soap advertisement 1065 THE AGE OF READING 1066 Color Plate 11: Sir John Everett Millais, Mariana Color Plate 12: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience Color Plate 13: Ford Madox Brown, Work Color Plate 14: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 1 Color Plate 15: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 3 Color Plate 16: William Morriss, Guenevere, or La Belle Iseult Color Plate 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel Color Plate 18: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket Color Plate 19: John Williams Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott Color Plate 20: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the Ruins THE AGE OF SELF-SCRUTINY 1068 Illustration: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1867 1068 THOMAS CARLYLE 1074 Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867 1075 Past and Present 1076 Midas [The Condition of England] 1076 from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow] 1079 from Labour [Know Thy Work] 1080 from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation] 1081 Captains of Industry 1083 PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape 1088 Illustration: John Leech, Horseman pursued by a train engine named Time 1089 THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 1090 FANNY KEMBLE 1091 from Record of a Girlhood 1091 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1092 from A Review of Southey's Colloquies 1092 PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (BLUE BOOKS) 1094 Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker 1095 Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers 1095 CHARLES DICKENS 1097 from Dombey and Son 1097 from Hard Times 1098 BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1100 from Sybil 1100 FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1101 from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 1101 Illustration: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic Town in 1440 /Same Town in 1840 1103 HENRY MAYHEW 1108 from London Labour and the London Poor 1108 Illustration: The Boy Crossing-Sweepers 1112 JOHN STUART MILL 1113 On Liberty 1115 from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1115 from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1117 The Subjection of Women 1121 from Chapter 1 1121 Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands 1129 Autobiography 1129 from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education 1129 from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1132 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1138 The Cry of the Children 1140 To George Sand: A Desire 1144 To George Sand: A Recognition 1144 A Year's Spinning (Web) Sonnets from the Portuguese 1145 1 (I thought once how Theocritus had sung) 1145 13 (And wilt thou have me fashion into speech) 1145 14 (If thou must love me, let it be for nought) 1145 21 (Say over again, and yet once over again) 1146 22 (When our two souls stand up erect and strong) 1146 24 (Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife) 1147 28 (My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!) 1147 32 (The first time that the sun rose on thine oath) 1147 38 (First time he kissed me, he but only kissed) 1148 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways) 1148 The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 1148 Aurora Leigh 1155 Book 1 1155 [Self-Portrait] 1155 Illustration: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, frontispiece of Aurora Leigh 1156 [Her Mother's Portrait] 1157 [Aurora's Education] 1158 [Discovery of Poetry] (Web) Book 2 1162 [Woman and Artist] 1162 [No Female Christ] 1165 [Aurora's Rejection of Romney] 1166 Book 3 1170 [The Woman Writer in London] 1170 Book 5 1171 [Epic Art and Modern Life] 1171 from A Curse for a Nation (Web) A Musical Instrument 1174 The Best Thing in the World (Web) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1175 Illustration: Max Beerbohm, Tennyson Reading In Memoriam to his Sovereign, 1904 1178 The Kraken 1178 Mariana 1179 The Lady of Shalott 1181 Illustration: William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott 1182 The Lotos-Eaters 1185 Ulysses 1189 Tithonus 1191 Break, Break, Break 1193 The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 1194 The Eagle: A Fragment (Web) Locksley Hall 1196 from THE PRINCESS 1201 Sweet and Low (Web) The Splendour Falls 1201 Tears, Idle Tears 1202 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1202 Come Down, O Maid (Web) [The Woman's Cause Is Man's] 1203 from In Memoriam A. H. H. 1204 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1235 Idylls of the King 1237 The Coming of Arthur 1237 Pelleas and Ettarre (Web) The Passing of Arthur 1247 The Higher Pantheism 1257 RESPONSE Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell 1258h Flower in the Crannied Wall (Web) Crossing the Bar 1259 EDWARD FITZGERALD (Web) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur (Web) CHARLES DARWIN 1260 Illustration: Linley Sambourne, Man is But a Worm 1261 The Voyage of the Beagle 1262 from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego 1262 Illustration: Thomas Landseer, after a drawing by C. Martens, A Fuegian at Portrait Cove 1263 from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago 1269 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1272 from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1272 The Descent of Man 1277 from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion 1277 from Autobiography 1283 PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science 1291 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1292 from Lord Bacon 1292 CHARLES DICKENS 1293 from Sunday Under Three Heads 1293 DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1296 from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1296 CHARLOTTE BRONTE 1299 from Jane Eyre 1299 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1301 Epi-strauss-ium 1301 The Latest Decalogue 1302 from Dipsychus 1302 JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO 1303 from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1304 JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1305 from Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1305 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1313 from Evolution and Ethics 1313 SIR EDMUND GOSSE 1317 from Father and Son 1317 ROBERT BROWNING 1322 Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning, 1866 1322 Porphyria's Lover 1325 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1326 My Last Duchess 1328 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1330 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1331 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1332 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1332 Meeting at Night 1335 Parting at Morning 1336 A Toccata of Galuppi's 1336 Memorabilia 1337 Love Among the Ruins 1338 Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came 1340 RESPONSE Stevie Smith: Childe Rolandine 1346h Fra Lippo Lippi 1347 The Last Ride Together 1355 Andrea del Sarto 1358 Two in the Campagna (Web) A Woman's Last Word 1364 Caliban Upon Setebos 1366 Epilogue to Asolando 1372 CHARLES DICKENS 1373 A Christmas Carol 1376 Illustration: Hablot K. Browne, Mr Scrooge Extinguishing the Spirit 1399 from A Walk in a Workhouse 1425 COMPANION READINGS Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends (Web) Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol 1430 h POPULAR SHORT FICTION 1431 ELIZABETH GASKELL 1432 Our Society at Cranford 1432 THOMAS HARDY 1447 The Withered Arm 1448 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1466 A Scandal in Bohemia 1467 Illustration: Sidney Paget, Good-night Mr Sherlock Holmes 1480 EMILY BRONTE 1482 High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending 1484 The night is darkening round me 1484 And first an hour of mournful musing 1485 I'm happiest when most away 1485 There are two trees in a lonely field 1485 Stanzas 1485 Plead for me 1486 Stars 1487 The Prisoner (A Fragment) 1488 Remembrance 1490 No coward soul is mine 1491 JOHN RUSKIN 1492 Modern Painters 1493 from Definition of Greatness in Art 1493 from Of Water, As Painted by Turner 1494 The Stones of Venice 1495 from The Nature of Gothic 1495 Illustration: John Ruskin, Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces 1496 The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1505 Praeterita (Web) Preface (Web) from The Springs of Wandel (Web) from Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms (Web) from Schaffhausen and Milan (Web) from The Grande Chartreuse (Web) from Joanna's Care (Web) FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1510 from Cassandra 1511 PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen 1520 Illustration: The Parliamentary Female, from Punch magazine, 1853 1521 FRANCES POWER COBBE 1522 from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself 1522 SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1525 from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1525 CHARLOTTE BRONTE 1528 from Letter to Emily Bronte 1528 Illustration: Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1844 1529 ANNE BRONTE 1529 from Agnes Grey 1530 JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1531 from The Idea of a University 1531 CAROLINE NORTON 1532 from A Letter to the Queen 1533 GEORGE ELIOT 1535 Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1535 THOMAS HUGHES 1540 from Tom Brown's School Days 1540 ISABELLA BEETON 1542 from The Book of Household Management 1542 JOHN RUSKIN 1544 from Sesame and Lilies 1544 Of Queens' Gardens 1544 QUEEN VICTORIA 1547 Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women 1547 Illustration: Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1841-1845 1549 SARAH GRAND 1552 from The New Aspect of the Woman Question 1552 SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 1553 Vitai Lampada 1554 MONA CAIRD 1554 from Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-Development? 1555 RUDYARD KIPLING 1556 If 1556 MATTHEW ARNOLD 1557 Illustration: Matthew Arnold and his wife Frances Wightman Arnold 1557 Isolation. To Marguerite 1560 To Marguerite-Continued 1561 Dover Beach 1562 RESPONSE Anthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch 1563h Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1564 The Buried Life 1565 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1567 The Scholar-Gipsy 1572 East London 1578 West London 1579 Thyrsis 1579 from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1585 from Culture and Anarchy 1595 from Sweetness and Light 1595 from Doing as One Likes 1597 from Hebraism and Hellenism 1600 from Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1601 from Conclusion 1603 from The Study of Poetry 1604 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1611 The Blessed Damozel 1612 The Woodspurge 1615 The House of Life 1616 The Sonnet 1616 4. Lovesight 1616 6. The Kiss 1617 Nuptial Sleep 1617 The Burden of Nineveh 1618 Jenny 1622 RESPONSES Augusta Webster: from A Castaway 1633 Thomas Hardy: The Ruined Maid 1642 h CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1642 Song (She sat and sang alway) 1644 Song (When I am dead, my dearest) 1644 Remember 1645 After Death 1645 A Pause 1645 Echo 1646 Dead Before Death 1646 Cobwebs 1647 A Triad 1647 In an Artist's Studio 1647 A Birthday 1648 An Apple-Gathering 1648 Winter: My Secret 1649 Up-Hill 1650 Goblin Market 1650 Illustration: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece to Goblin Market 1651 No, Thank You, John 1663 Promises Like Pie-Crust 1664 In Progress 1664 What Would I Give? 1665 A Life's Parallels 1665 Later Life 1665 17 (Something this foggy day, a something which) 1665 Sleeping at Last 1666 WILLIAM MORRIS 1666 The Defence of Guenevere 1667 The Haystack in the Floods 1675 from The Beauty of Life 1679 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 1684 The Leper 1685 The Triumph of Time 1689 I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother 1689 Hymn to Proserpine 1690 A Forsaken Garden (Web) WALTER PATER 1693 from The Renaissance 1694 Preface 1694 from Leonardo da Vinci 1697 Conclusion 1698 from The Child in the House (Web) GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1701 God's Grandeur 1702 The Starlight Night 1703 Spring 1703 The Windhover 1704 Pied Beauty 1704 Hurrahing in Harvest 1705 Binsey Poplars 1705 Duns Scotus's Oxford 1706 Felix Randal 1706 Spring and Fall: to a young child 1707 As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1707 [Carrion Comfort] 1708 No Worst, There Is None 1708 I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1708 That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 1709 Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1710 from Journal [On Inscape and Instress] 1710 from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm] 1712 LEWIS CARROLL 1713 from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1715 Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole 1715 from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears 1718 Illustration: John Tenniel, illustration to Alice in Wonderland, 1865 1719 You are old, Father William 1720 The Lobster-Quadrille 1721 from Through the Looking Glass 1721 Child of the pure unclouded brow (Web) Jabberwocky 1721 [Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky] 1722 The Walrus and the Carpenter 1723 The White Knight's Song (Web) PERSPECTIVES Imagining Childhood (Web) CHARLES DARWIN (Web) from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant (Web) MORAL VERSES (Web) Table Rules for Little Folks (Web) Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake (Web) Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup (Web) Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller (Web) William Miller: Willie Winkie (Web) EDWARD LEAR (Web) [Selected Limericks] (Web) The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Web) The Jumblies (Web) How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! (Web) CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (Web) from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (Web) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (Web) from A Child's Garden of Verses (Web) HILAIRE BELLOC (Web) from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (Web) from Cautionary Tales for Children (Web) DAISY ASHFORD (Web) from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan (Web) RUDYARD KIPLING 1726 Without Benefit of Clergy 1728 from JUST SO STORIES (Web) How the Whale Got His Throat (Web) How the Camel Got His Hump (Web) How the Leopard Got His Spots (Web) Gunga Din 1742 The Widow at Windsor 1744 Recessional 1745 PERSPECTIVES Travel and Empire 1746 Illustration: Daylight at Last! 1746 FRANCES TROLLOPE 1748 from Domestic Manners of the Americans 1748 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1753 from Minute on Indian Education 1754 WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 1758 from Our Colonies 1758 BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1759 Illustration: New Crowns for Old 1760 from Conservative and Liberal Principles 1760 ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (Web) from Eothen (Web) SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (Web) from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Web) ISABELLA BIRD (Web) from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Web) SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY 1762 from Through the Dark Continent 1762 MARY KINGSLEY 1769 from Travels in West Africa 1769 RUDYARD KIPLING 1776 The White Man's Burden 1777 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1778 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1780 OSCAR WILDE 1818 Illustration: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, 1893 1820 Impression du Matin 1821 RESPONSE Lord Alfred Douglas: Impression de Nuit 1822h The Harlot's House 1822 Symphony in Yellow 1823 from The Decay of Lying (Web) from The Soul of Man Under Socialism 1824 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1828 The Importance of Being Earnest 1829 Aphorisms 1870 from De Profundis 1872 COMPANION READING H. Montgomery Hyde: from The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1879h PERSPECTIVES Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siecle 1885 Illustration: Aubrey Beardsley, J'ai baise ta bouche, Iokanaan 1886 Illustration: George Du Maurier, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot 1887 W. S. GILBERT 1888 If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1889 JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 1890 from Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock 1891 MICHAEL FIELD (KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER) 1895 La Gioconda 1896 A Pen-Drawing of Leda 1896 A Girl 1897 ADA LEVERSON 1897 Suggestion 1898 ARTHUR SYMONS 1903 Pastel 1903 White Heliotrope 1904 from The Decadent Movement in Literature 1904 from Preface to Silhouettes 1906 RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1907 A Ballad of London 1907 LIONEL JOHNSON 1908 The Destroyer of a Soul 1909 The Dark Angel 1909 A Decadent's Lyric 1911 LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS 1911 In Praise of Shame 1912 Two Loves 1912 OLIVE CUSTANCE (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS) 1914 The Masquerade 1915 Statues 1915 The White Witch 1916
