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Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned ...
On July 11, 1874, The Spectator published an article called The Dog-Fight at Hanley that described the circumstances of the brawl. [2] The fighter, named Brummy, was a middle-aged dwarf about 4.5 feet (1.4 m) tall, with oversized features, and bowed legs. He had apparently agreed to fight the dog for a bet, on his theory that no dog "could lick ...
Detail of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine's Bath in the Park (1785) Astronaut Jack R. Lousma taking a shower in space, 1973. Bathing is the immersion of the body, wholly or partially, usually in water, but often in another medium such as hot air. It is most commonly practised as part of personal cleansing, and less frequently for relaxation ...
The law was extended to the rest of England and Wales in 1854. Dog-pulled carts were often used by very poor self-employed men as a cheap means to deliver milk, human foods, animal foods (the cat's-meat man), and for collecting refuse (the rag-and-bone man). The dogs were susceptible to rabies; cases of the disease among humans had been on the ...
The Victorian Church (2 vol 1966), covers all denominations online; Clark, G. Kitson The making of Victorian England (1963). online; Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online
The 1835 Act amended the existing legislation to prohibit the keeping of premises for the purpose of staging the baiting of bulls, dogs, bears, badgers or "other Animal (whether of domestic or wild Nature or Kind)", [1] which facilitated further legislation to protect animals, create shelters, veterinary hospitals and more humane transportation ...
What is now called classical music was somewhat undeveloped compared to parts of Europe but did have significant support. [57] Many sports were introduced or popularised during the Victorian era. [58] They became important to male identity. [59] Examples included cricket, [60] football, [61] rugby, [62] tennis [63] and cycling. [64]
Victorians standardised the rules for association football, or soccer, based on a range of games already played, such as the Eton wall game. Walter Clopton Wingfield invented the game of lawn tennis , which allowed young men and women to socialise together, and to get more exercise than by playing the sedate game of croquet .