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Table of Contents

Introduction Mary Prince Richard Oastler Charlote Elizabeth Tonna Thomas Carlyle Sarah Stickney Ellis Thomas Babington Macaulay John Henry Newman Jane Welsh Carlyle Harriet Martineau Robert Chambers James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth Benjamin Disraeli John Stuart Mill Caroline Norton William Rathbone Greg Charles Darwin Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake William Ewart Gladstone Henry Mayhew Samuel Smiles David Livingstone Percival Leigh William Acton Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes John Ruskin Queen Victoria Charles Kingsley Prince Albert Punch George Eliot Herbert Spencer Florence Nightingale Richard Francis Burton Lucie Duff Gordon Frances Power Cobbe Matthew Arnold Thomas Henry Huxley Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Margaret Oliphant William Morris Walter Horatio Pater Edmund William Gosse Mary Arnold [Mrs. Humphry] Ward Oscar Wilde Mary Kingsley Arthur William Symons

About the Author

Rosemary J. Mundhenk is professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. LuAnn McCracken Fletcher is assistant professor of English at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

A lively selection of Victorian prose nonfiction texts that illuminates a group of key debates from the period, while at the same time offering an entertaining, often eye-opening reading experience for the novice and expert alike.