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is a ‘fashionable watering place’ in *Agnes Grey. See scarborough.

was first serialized in Public Opinion, 14 and 21 December 1861 (reprinted in TAC2). A savagely realistic convict

in Jane Eyre; the spiteful, sycophantic lady's maid to Jane Eyre's Aunt Sarah *Reed. She respects her

His ‘burlesque ballad opera’ The Revolt of the Workhouse (1834) influenced Oliver Twist (to William Mitchell, 16

An extravagant young nobleman in the *Glass Town and Angrian saga, who is compelled to sell his estate,

Foxhunting is a most thoroughly English pastime, open to lords, tenants, and tradesmen alike and conducive to goodwill among them.

were made by the author himself when preparing his public readings. Since then most have been made either to

including ‘fancy’ needlework, were important for the social and professional mobility of middle‐class women in the 19th century. Defined by

Lord Brougham, now elderly, known for public service over 50 years, stands accused of selling patronage. His faults do

This thesis is commonly associated with Thomas C. Moser’s influential study Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline (1957),

young ne'er-do-well and horse thief, known for his scrapes with the law, including two years' imprisonment with hard labour. He

a city and province of Ashantee, which features only in the early stages of the *Glass Town and Angrian

As a student of drama, Trollope encouraged G. H. *Lewes to publish his theatre critiques in more permanent form. Thus,

distinguished English historian, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge (1895); involved in founding the English Historical Review; Baron

Dickens was an enthusiastic theatregoer who particularly admired good acting. As a shorthand writer at Doctors' Commons he went to

George Eliot's first full-length novel, published 1 February 1859.

Composition

Adam Bede was begun at Richmond on 22

American historian best known for The History of the United States during the Administration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

one of the four disreputable conspirators who accuse John Caldigate of bigamy in order to receive money from him as

The Victorian stage regularly plundered Scott and Dickens, whose magnified characters and action-filled plots had an intrinsic theatricality. Trollope was

introduce new situations, jokes, songs, etc. into the framework of one of Dickens's stories, without changing the main outline of