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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: THE VICTORIAN WORLD

Volume 14

REFORM AND INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

REFORM AND INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

Edited by
BARBARA DENNIS AND DAVID SKILTON

First published in 1987 by Croom Helm Ltd

This edition first published in 2016

by Routledge

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1987 Barbara Dennis and David Skilton

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REFORM AND INTELLECTUAL DEBATE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

Edited by
Barbara Dennis and David Skilton

1987 Barbara Dennis and David Skilton

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House,

Burrell Row, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT

Croom Helm Australia, 4450 Waterloo Road,

North Ryde, 2113, New South Wales

Published in the USA by

Croom Helm

in association with Methuen, Inc.

29 West 35th Street,

New York, NY 10001

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Reform and intellectual debate in Victorian England

1. EnglandSocial Conditions19th centurySources

I. Dennis, Barbara II. Skilton, David III. Word for word series

942.081 HN385

ISBN 0-7099-2375-9

ISBN 0-7099-5428-X (Pbk.)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reform and intellectual debate in Victorian England / edited by

Barbara Dennis and David Skilton.

p. cm. (World and word series)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-7099-2375-9. ISBN 0-7099-5428-X (pbk.)

1. Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Sources. 2. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century Sources. I. Dennis, Barbara, 1942- II. Skilton, David. III. Series.

DA550.R43 1987

941.082 dc 19 87-21726

Photocomposition by Pat and Anne Murphy, Highcliffe-on-Sea, Dorset

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn

Contents

David Masson

John Blackie

S. C. Kell

Lewis Emanuel

Sir Charles Trevelyan

J. Llewellyn Davies

Edward Dicey

Sir Richard Burton

Samuel Smiles

J. R. Vernon

R. H. Hutton

H. Byerley Thomson

Robert Kerr

C. J. Ellicott

R. H. Hutton

H. V. Crosskey

John Hannah

Anthony Trollope

A. J. Beresford Hope

Frances Power Cobbe

William Robinson

William Johnston

T. E. C. Leslie

Fitzjames Stephen

Francis Palgrave

E. S. Dallas

E. P. Hood

F. O. Morris

Caroline Norton

Frances Power Cobbe

Julia Wedgwood

Emily Shirreff

Sophia Jex-Blake

Josephine Butler

Leslie Stephen

Sir William Hamilton

J. S. Russell

Frederic Harrison

George Richmond

Wilkie Collins

Theodore Martin

Herbert Story-Maskelyne

T. H. Ward

Acknowledgements

The editors acknowledge with appreciation the help, in various forms, of the Librarian and staff of St Deiniols Library, Harwarden and of Shirley Foster, B. A. Humfrey, L. H. Dennis and especially Elsie Davies.

Barbara Dennis

G. M. Young declared that the world has witnessed two great ages of the human intellect one the age of Pericles, the other the age of Victoria. It would follow that to aim for a comprehensive commentary on all that was achieved by the human intellect, in all fields of reform, in the years between 1830 and 1880 would be unthinkable, and this anthology has not attempted it. The possible areas of debate which might be represented are almost unlimited, and any selection will seem arbitrary, when every human activity, physical and mental, it seemed, arrived at a significant or even critical stage during these years. The sections into which the book is divided, therefore, simply represent seven unquestionably major topics in any examination of Victorian society, and many other areas, arguably as important, are unmentioned. Even the areas selected frequently and inevitably overlap, and this has been acknowledged and indicated with cross-references.

The editors have deliberately selected passages from less accessible sources, and have avoided, on the whole, the big names readily available elsewhere to which students are presumably directed in other contexts. Discussions of important new contributions to learning and opinion have generally been preferred to extracts from the key books themselves, because an assemblage of articles, reviews and pamphlets better indicates the quality and form of the debate before the educated public than would a succession of different and separate pieces from the masters themselves. So the sources of which the editors have made use represent a cross-section of discussions on some of the burning topics of the day in the forms in which it was generally available in periodicals, newspapers, lectures, popular books, pamphlets, and so on.

Of these forms newspapers, until the last years of the century, were of comparatively minor importance, and quite the most significant vehicle of communication was the literary periodical, the most widely represented form in the anthology. This was the golden age of periodical writing, when the literary periodical was pre-eminently the common voice of the literate. The weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies poured out information, commentary and opinion on every topic to come before the public, gave first publication to a great many of the significant books of the age, fiction and non-fiction, and acted as a general forum of discussion and debate for the educated public. In 1859 alone, for example, 115 new periodicals appeared in London, and when the

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