Download or read book Reminiscences of J L Toole written by John Lawrence Toole and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of J L Toole related by himself and chronicled by Joseph Hatton written by J. L. Toole and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of J L Toole written by John Lawrence Toole and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving written by Bram Stoker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging 1906 two-volume tribute to the most famous actor-manager of the nineteenth century by his closest friend and business manager.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Hope I Don t Intrude written by David Vincent and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
Download or read book Inventing the cave man written by Andrew Horrall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Download or read book The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins written by Baron Henry Hawkins Brampton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Victorian Theatrical Burlesques written by Richard Schoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays - represents a valuable scholarly tool for students and scholars of modern drama, theatre history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques includes a 'state-of-the-art' introduction which provides a general overview of theatrical burlesques in the Victorian era, emphasising performance history. Sustained reference is made to burlesques other than those presented in the anthology. Through its general introduction, prefaces and annotations to individual plays, checklist of burlesque plays, and bibliography, the unique volume allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to see Victorian burlesques as a rich historical record of shifting attitudes toward drama and the theatre.
Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library written by Bishopsgate Institute, London and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of J L Toole written by John Lawrence Toole and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. A Reception at Orme Square?Mr. and Mrs. Toole's Silver Wedding?Pleasant hours after midnight?Mr. Irving's first experience as a public reader on his own account? Toole at Dunfermline? A 'Norrible Tale in chapel? Lo the poor Indian ?Complimentary groans? Toole's age?Michael Garner on the stage and off?Old Garente and the bandits?David James's Whitechapel romance?Hollingshead and the birthplace of Podgers? Low salaries and high art?Actors and their friends? Artistic society?The shadow. The pleasant spirit of the closing picture of the previous chapter follows me in my last sunny memory of Orme Square. It was on April 27th, 1879, that Mr. and Mrs. Toole celebrated their silver wedding. Over a hundred friends accepted the invitation of the host and hostess to an evening reception. The guests were representative ladies and gentlemen, some of them already celebrated in the world of Literature and Art, others who have since achieved fame and prosperity. Each of them came with either a bouquet of flowers or a gift of silver plate, or both, and each might have wondered where the hostess would find room for another bouquet, or another less perishable souvenir; for quite early in the evening every sideboard, shelf, mantelpiece, table, seemed to be gay with flowers, or white with silver. Some of the tributes of love and esteem were accompanied with pleasant conceits in verse; others were signalized by serious and touching lines, such, for example, as the silver token from Mr. Clement Scott. When the rooms were crowded with guests, it was suggested that the poet should read his verses, whereupon he recited the following stanzas with excellent effect: ? To John Lawrence Toole On His silver Wedding. A Silver Wedding Johnnie, is it true, ...
Download or read book Recollections of a Humourist Grave and Gay written by Arthur William À Beckett and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Society Clown Reminiscences written by George Grossmith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Society Clown: Reminiscences" by George Grossmith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Life and Reminiscences of E L Blanchard written by Edward L. Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins Baron Brampton written by Henry Hawkins Baron Brampton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins" aimed to create a biographical work about the life and deeds of Lord Brampton free from "doubtful stories," as the author claims. The book's subject, Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton, was an English nobleman and a Judge of the High Court of Justice between 1876 and 1898.
Download or read book Annotated Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated annotator of "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has now prepared a sumptuous new edition of the Dickens classic.
Download or read book A Victorian Somebody written by Stephen Wade and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan's immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George would be cast in the lead role of the ‘patter man'. He was also many other things in his life, including Bow Street court reporter, piano entertainer for high society, and in the 1890s, with his brother Weedon, the author of the humorous classic work of fiction, The Diary of a Nobody, which has never been out of print and continues to inspire other writers. In this fascinating book, Stephen Wade tells the story of Grossmith’s life, from Penny Reading entertainer to self-styled ‘society clown.’ A Victorian Somebody places him firmly in context, recalls the many friends and colleagues who worked with George, and puts him once again centre stage, exactly where he should be.
