Radical Victorians
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Radical Victorians

The Women and Men who Dared to Think Differently

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Radical Victorians

The Women and Men who Dared to Think Differently

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There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountered. The politicians, generals and commercial classes have been well covered in popular history books, but there were also thinkers of radical and unsettling ideas who had a real influence at the time. Many were women, many from the middle and working classes, and almost all outside the power structure. They were by no means all fringe ideas either – in 1840, Queen Victoria herself attended a séance, for example. The book is a biography focussed history of some of these challenging ideas and the men and women who promoted them.It looks at radical thinkers and movers, the people who stepped outside of the social norm and propelled the Victorians towards the modern day.

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Publisher
Pen and Sword History
Year
2022
ISBN
9781399008297
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Book Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One Vegetarianism: Anna Kingsford
  7. Chapter Two Anti-Vivisection: Frances Power Cobbe
  8. Chapter Three Temperance and Teetotalism: Ann Jane Carlile
  9. Chapter Four Spiritualism: Florence Cook
  10. Chapter Five Cremation and Living with the Dead: Sir Henry Thompson & Isabelle Holmes
  11. Chapter Six Women’s Legal Equality: Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy & Richard Pankhurst
  12. Chapter Seven Birth Control: George Drysdale & Annie Besant
  13. Chapter Eight Freedom of the Press Edward Truelove
  14. Chapter Nine Atheism Charles Bradlaugh
  15. Chapter Ten The Sexual Double Standard Josephine Butler
  16. Chapter Eleven The New Journalism W.T. Stead
  17. Chapter Twelve Radical Christianity Stuart Headlam
  18. Chapter Thirteen Socialism: Keir Hardie & Henry Hyndman
  19. Chapter Fourteen Republicanism Sir Charles Dilke
  20. Chapter Fifteen Eugenics Francis Galton
  21. Conclusion Words Not Deeds
  22. References
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index