May 1858

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Political Success

This chapter details events that occurred in London in the summer of 858. These include the rift between Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, which can be partially attributed to Dickens's much publicized separation from his wife and Thackeray's role in spreading rumours about the former's marriage troubles; and Benjamin Disraeli's political success stemming from his role in guiding the India Bill to completion, his widely acclaimed budget, and his swift management of the bill to clean up the Thames. The chapter also describes the Divorce Act, which was being tested in suits brought before the new Divorce Court during the spring and early summer of 1858. By the end of the year, 244 cases had been heard, and the general opinion was that the new law was a roaring success.

REALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Latifa Karam Ahmadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Literary Trend

In England, realism was formed very quickly, because it appeared immediately after the Enlightenment, and its formation occurred almost simultaneously with the development of Romanticism, which did not hinder the success of the new literary movement. The peculiarity of English literature is that in it romanticism and realism coexisted and enriched each other. Examples include the works of two writers, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte. However, the discovery and confirmation of realism in English literature is primarily associated with the legacy of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). The works of Charles Dickens differ not only in the strengthening of the real social moment, but also in the previous realist literature. Dickens has a profoundly negative effect on bourgeois reality. Key words: England, realism, literary trend, bourgeois society, utopia, unjust life, artistic description

THE SQUAB AND THE IDLER: A COSMOPOLITAN – COLONIAL DIALOGUE IN THE CALCUTTA STAR BETWEEN WILLIAM THACKERAY AND JAMES HUME

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-406
Author(s):  
Gary Simons
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
High Mortality ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
English Language ◽  
Small Body ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Benjamin Disraeli ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Henry Mayhew

The first English language newspaper in India began publication in 1780; by 1857, almost two hundred papers and periodicals had appeared – and many had quickly disappeared. An 1839 article in the Calcutta Literary Gazette partially attributed this high mortality rate to a lack of talented writers and to a desire among colonists for news from England: There is not here as there is in London, a class of professional literati, always ready to prepare a certain supply of matter. . . . [T]he London paying system has been introduced, but the writer whose contributions are worth paying for, are a very small body. . . . To all the drawbacks already mentioned we must mention another of no trifling influence; we allude to the disposition in our countrymen to look homewards for their literature. (Chanda xviii-xxi) Indeed, English newspapers of the time featured the contributions of literati such as Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, Henry Mayhew, and William Makepeace Thackeray, but of these figures only Thackeray wrote purposely for an Indian periodical.

NOTES ON A VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1958

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Joseph Stokes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
The Soviet Union

THE FOLLOWING is written for the purpose of supplementing the account of Doctor Milton Senn concerning his visit to the Soviet Union during mid-1958. Dr. Senn visited first in the early summer; and I was there from mid-August to mid-September We have agreed that Dr. Senn will cover the family and child health aspects, and I shall make some remarks on the overall scene. Both of us visited with more than one companion and both of us had interpreters. In my own case we were furnished with an excellent interpreter who had written his final English thesis on a comparison of the satire of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, but we also had a scholar from the United States who spoke Russian fluently, Dr. Samuel Corson, a physiologist whose knowledge of scientific Russian filled well the gaps in the medical knowledge of our interpreter. Dr. George Perera of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, N.Y., was the third member of our group, and at times he aided in contacts through his knowledge of French. In addition, the number of American visitors in the Soviet Union in 1958 was over 5,000, as confirmed to us by Ambassador Menshikov after our return; we met several official delegations of teachers, agriculturalists, physicians, and of those studying social security, pension plans, etc. Before leaving the United States we had the opportunity of obtaining helpful pointers from Dr. Senn who had just returned, and also had checked with a number of medical and other groups who had been there in recent years.

scholarly journals Melodrama and the Penitent Woman Tableau in Victorian Culture: From Tennyson to Conrad

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Valiska Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Social Question ◽  
Victorian Period

This essay investigates an important stock scene of female peril and suffering from Victorian melodrama that I am calling the penitent woman tableau. I argue that this highly iconographic staged moment, where a sexually fallen daughter, fiancée, or wife sinks to her knees in remorse at the sight of the father, lover, or husband she has betrayed, derives its emotional energy and cultural force less from its representation of feminine terror and more from its equivocal portrayal of masculine authority. The penitent woman tableau spotlights a tense moment where violence against a woman could occur but doesn’t; it is a performance of masculine power where the man’s physical force is implicitly available but never literalized. Both visual artists and writers of the Victorian period were drawn to this scene, which I believe fascinated audiences because it spotlights the difficulty of representing masculine mastery in a society increasingly skeptical of physical force as a desirable means of domestic discipline. By examining the penitent woman tableau across several Victorian media and literary genres, including painting, poetry by Alfred Tennyson, and fiction by Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Joseph Conrad, I not only attempt to enrich our understanding of the unstable nature of masculine authority within the middle-class mid-Victorian family but also to illuminate the ways in which melodramatic conventions were crucial to the exploration of this urgent social question. Melodrama, often thought of as both feminine and conservative, offers a surprisingly complex depiction of masculinity within the penitent woman tableau.

Illustrations and the Victorian Novel

2014 ◽  
pp. 616-636
Author(s):  
Julia Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Ellen Wood ◽  
Distinct Object ◽  
The Way

Illustration was a defining feature of the Victorian novel, despite the fact that it has since been marginalized in both published editions and scholarly work. This essay argues for the significance of illustration as a process of interpretative engagement between texts, images, and readers. In so doing, the essay participates in and outlines the emergence of a new illustration studies, which regards illustration as a distinct object of criticism and analyses the way that illustration signifies in relation to the words it accompanies, its cultural context, and other images. The essay takes as its focus pictures that appeared in novels by a range of canonical and less well-known authors (including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Florence Montgomery, Jane Sexey, and Ellen Wood). The presence of illustrations in these works, the essay argues, impacts on how the novels are read and can modify and shape the texts themselves.

Identification and Management of Clustered Pellitory (Parietaria praetermissa) in Citrus Groves

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Ramdas Kanissery ◽  
Biwek Gairhe ◽  
Brent Sellers ◽  
Steve Futch
Keyword(s):  
Drip Irrigation ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
Spray Pattern ◽  
Citrus Groves ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
Florida Citrus ◽  
Heavy Infestation

In Florida, clustered pellitory is becoming a troublesome weed for citrus, especially from the winter through early summer. Inadequate management of this weed can result in its heavy infestation in tree rows and can interrupt the spray pattern of low-volume drip irrigation systems. This new 3-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department will assist Florida citrus growers with proper identification of clustered pellitory and with adoption of adequate and timely strategies to manage this weed in their groves. Written by Ramdas Kanissery, Biwek Gairhe, Brent Sellers, and Steve Futch. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1341

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