Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... women that so shocked Dorothy Wordsworth in the Low Countries . Such distress as existed was tucked away out of sight ; one had , wrote Simond , who spent two years towards the end of the war studying the country's institutions , to go ...
... women that so shocked Dorothy Wordsworth in the Low Countries . Such distress as existed was tucked away out of sight ; one had , wrote Simond , who spent two years towards the end of the war studying the country's institutions , to go ...
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... woman and emaciated children wait- ing for him outside the tap - room - who , as Bill Sikes , matriculated from burglary ... women and half - naked children wallowing in pools and kennels . The improvements effected by eighteenth century ...
... woman and emaciated children wait- ing for him outside the tap - room - who , as Bill Sikes , matriculated from burglary ... women and half - naked children wallowing in pools and kennels . The improvements effected by eighteenth century ...
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... women who represented between them the major portion of the wealth , power and activity of the world . It gave them regularity of habit , a rule of sober conduct that made them invincible in their narrow achievement and a certain ...
... women who represented between them the major portion of the wealth , power and activity of the world . It gave them regularity of habit , a rule of sober conduct that made them invincible in their narrow achievement and a certain ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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