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  • Formaat: 460 pages, 36 Halftones, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Historical Resources
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jul-2022
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315400105

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume, ‘Manufactured Things’, will consider mass produced industrial and domestic objects.



From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume, ‘Manufactured Things’, will consider mass produced industrial and domestic objects.

Volume IV Manufactured Things
Deborah Wynne
Louisa Yates
Acknowledgements x
Bibliography xi
Introduction to Volume IV: The industrial revolution and the mass production of commodities 1(14)
PART 1 The context of manufacturing in Victorian Britain
15(48)
1 `Peel's Velveteens'
21(4)
2 George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industries of Great Britain Described [ extract]
25(6)
3 Richard H. Home, `The Female School of Design in the Capital of the World'
31(3)
4 Image: `Calico Printing'
34(1)
5 John Capper, `The Northern Wizard'
35(6)
6 Anon, `Help for Women'
41(4)
7 Karl Marx, `The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
45(7)
8 Anon, `Sewing Machines'
52(3)
9 Lyon Playfair, `On Patents and the New Patent Bill'
55(5)
10 J. T. Slugg, Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago
60(3)
PART 2 Textiles
63(174)
2.1 Fabrics
65(6)
11 Edward Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
71(2)
12 Anon, `A Day at the Nottingham Lace Manufactories'
73(13)
13 Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, `Spitalfields'
86(9)
14 John Capper, `British Cotton'
95(6)
15 Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
101(3)
16 Edward Baines, `On the Woollen Manufacture of England; With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District'
104(10)
17 `The Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, Weaver 1860-64'
114(2)
18 Image: `Cotton Printing'
116(1)
19 Image: `Wool Machinery'
117(1)
20 Image: `Weaving Looms'
118(1)
21 Anon, `Honiton Lace'
119(4)
22 William Morris, `Textile Fabrics'
123(2)
23 Anon, `French Lace'
125(6)
2.2 Clothing
127(4)
24 Thomas Hood, `The Song of the Shirt'
131(3)
25 Harriet Martineau, `Rainbow Making'
134(9)
26 Samuel Sidney, `A Ladies Warehouse'
143(7)
27 Mrs Henry Wood, Mrs Halliburton's Troubles
150(4)
28 Anon, `Gloves'
154(2)
29 Anon, `A Crinoline Manufactory'
156(3)
30 Edith Simcox, `Eight Years of Co-operative Shirtmaking'
159(17)
31 Ada Heather-Bigg, `Women and the Glove Trade'
176(11)
2.3 Carpets
183(4)
32 `Carpets'
187(4)
33 Professor Archer, `On the Progress of our Art Industries'
191(5)
34 Harold Cox, `How Real Axminster is Made - a Visit to the only Factory in England'
196(4)
35 David Paterson, The Colour Printing of Carpet Yarns: A Useful Manual for Colour-Chemists and Textile Printers
200(9)
2.4 Paper
205(4)
36 Charles Dickens and Mark Lemon, `A Paper-Mill'
209(4)
37 Image: Wallpaper
213(2)
38 Harriet Martineau, `Household Scenery'
215(8)
39 `Cardboard'
223(7)
40 Harriet Martineau, `How to Get Paper'
230(5)
41 Anon, `Cigarette'
235(2)
PART 3 Metal goods
237(108)
3.1 Pins and needles
239(4)
42 Anon, `Pin-Making (from Sir George Head's Home Tour)'
243(2)
43 Anon, `A Second Day at the Birmingham Factories'
245(4)
44 Harriet Martineau, `Needles'
249(10)
45 Anon, `Pins'
259(3)
46 A. L. O. E., The Story of a Needle
262(2)
47 `Needles'
264(5)
3.2 Cutlery
265(4)
48 Anon, `A Day at the Sheffield Cutlery-Works'
269(10)
49 Anon, `Fraudulent Trade Marks'
279(4)
50 Anon, `Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Limited'
283(5)
51 Henry J. Palmer, `Cutlery and Cutlers at Sheffield'
288(3)
52 Anon, `Made in Germany'
291(3)
53 Image: Joseph Rodgers & Sons, selections from the `Old Table Day Book'
294(1)
54 Image: `Fish-slice and fork, and dessert-knife' (Messrs. J. Rodgers & Sons, of Sheffield)
295(6)
3.3 Locks and keys
297(4)
55 Charles Chubb, Chubb's Improved Patent Detector Lock
301(2)
56 Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, the Two Nations
303(2)
57 Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
305(2)
58 Anon, `A Few Thoughts on Keys'
307(6)
59 J. C. Tildesley, `A
Chapter on Locks and Keys'
313(7)
60 Anon, `A Midland Tour; XVII - Wolverhampton'
320(3)
61 Images: `Lock'
323(8)
3.4 Fire ironmongery
327(4)
62 `Fire Irons' and `Fenders, Grates, and Light Iron Castings'
331(4)
63 Anon, `William S. Burton, General Furnishing Ironmonger'
335(2)
64 B. W. Richardson, `Health at Home'
337(5)
65 Anon, `Musgrave & Co. (Limited), Stable Fitting and Stove Manufacturers, Belfast, London, Manchester, and Paris'
342(3)
PART 4 Household goods
345(103)
4.1 Ceramics
347(4)
66 Anon, `Leaves from the Mahogany Tree: Table Furniture (China and Glass etc.)'
351(3)
67 Images: `Ceramic Arts'
354(2)
68 Image: George Du Maurier, `The Six-Mark Tea-Pot'
356(1)
69 Anon, `China, China Everywhere'
357(3)
70 Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns
360(11)
4.2 Glassware
367(4)
71 G. R. Porter, `On the Manufacture of Crown-Glass, Broad Glass, and Bottle Glass'
371(4)
72 Luke Herbert, `Glass'
375(6)
73 Anon, `The Falcon Glass-Works'
381(2)
74 Anon, `A Glass Manufactory'
383(8)
4.3 Plate
387(4)
75 Alfred Crowquill, `The Service of Plate'
391(6)
76 Anon, `The Age of the Electro-Plate'
397(1)
77 Anon, `Electro-Deposition'
398(9)
4.4 Soap
403(4)
78 Anon, `A Day at a Soap and Candle Factory'
407(14)
79 `By Order of the Bath', Pears' Soap
421(1)
80 `Some Good Reasons for Using Sunlight Soap'
422(6)
81 Image: `Vinolia Soap'
428(5)
4.5 Candles
429(4)
82 Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles
433(3)
83 William Crookes, `Preface' to Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle: a course of lectures delivered before an audience at the Royal Institution
436(1)
84 Joseph Hatton, `Candle-Making'
437(10)
85 Image: James McNeill Whistler, `Price's Candle-Works'
447(1)
Index 448
Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester, UK