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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
(1812–70),
novelist and writer, arguably the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. His early writings drew on
Doctors' Commons
The popular name for the College of Advocates founded in the 1490s by Richard Blodwell, dean of the arches (i.e. the judge of the provincial court of the archbishop of ...
Duke of Wellington
(1769–1852)British soldier and Tory statesman, Prime Minister (1828–30; 1834). Born in Ireland, he served as commander of British forces in the Peninsular War, winning a series of victories against ...
English Literature
British sea literature includes every work of imaginative, dramatic, aesthetic, or symbolic quality within the wider range of British writing relating to the sea, whether imagination re-creates fact ...
Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court, London. It takes its popular name from the road on which it stands, the Old Bailey, which follows an old fortified wall or ‘bailey’. The Court ...
prison
A building in which convicted offenders (prisoners) are incarcerated for the duration of a custodial sentence, and in which accused defendants who have not been granted bail are detained in custody ...
profession
Many of the professions that were well established by the 19th century were created during the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly in the post‐Restoration period. See Geoffrey Holmes, Augustan ...
Sir Edwin Chadwick
(1800–90)British public health reformer. A friend and disciple of Jeremy Bentham, he was the architect of the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834). His report for the royal commission set up in 1833 to ...
Victoria
(1819–1901),queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1877–1901). Victoria would have agreed that her life fell into three parts—before Albert, with ...
virtue
A quality considered morally good or desirable in a person; the important virtues are traditionally the four cardinal virtues (see cardinal 2), justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude, valued by ...
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