Best of
Victorian

1984

Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla


Felix Barker - 1984
    Covers this historical cemetery.

Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves


Jack D. Zipes - 1984
    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

London Under London: A Subterranean Guide


Richard Trench - 1984
    A new section covers: the pioneering deep level water main 80 kilometres in length, much longer even than the Channel Tunnel; new power tunnels and the enormous substation beneath Leicester Square; new underground railways; glass fibre communication; and much more. Clearly, metropolitan man is burrowing as actively as ever. The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts and cellars. These lifelines of the metropolis twist and turn hidden beneath the pavements of the city - fifteen hundred miles of Neo-Gothic sewers, a hundred miles of Neolithic rivers, eighty-two miles of tube tunnels, twelve miles of government tunnels and hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and pipes. Layer upon layer, they run their urgent errands, carrying people, delivering water, removing sewage, passing currents, sending messages, conveying parcels. Drawing extensively from the literature and visual archives of the underworld, London under London traces the history of the tunnellers and borers who have pierced the ground beneath the city for close on two thousand years. The authors trace the routes taken by man and nature, and enable us to follow them from the comfort of our armchairs. They can also tell us, gazetteer-style, exactly where we can get below and see the strange world which they depict, whom to ask for permission, and which of the public service authorities organizes trips underground.

400 Years of Fashion


Natalie Rothstein - 1984
    With 120 illustrations, the book is a visual delight that draws on the V&A’s unrivaled apparel collection. From a dress worn at the court of George II in the 1700s to Vivienne Westwood’s contemporary Pirates Collection, to pieces by leading designers such as Fortuny, Poiret, Charles James, and John Galliano, this book is an outstanding resource that also features a wide range of accessories, including shoes, fans, and hats.

Days Of Grace


Brenda Jagger - 1984
    Now, as heiress to Clarrow Fell, Olivia brings her delightful, frivolous mother and her sisters home to Yorkshire - and to a different world. The elegant salons, the shabby lodgings, are replaced by the grim and alien grandeur of the moors and the mill towns. Olivia will inherit the land and the traditions she has come to love. But first she must check the ambitions of her wealthy cousin Max. Charming, sophisticated and ruthless, Max makes no secret of his desire to be master of Clarrow Fell - and of Olivia too . .

Winter of the Heart


Linda J. LaRosa - 1984
    It began as a magical love story of champagne and candlelight, of passion and romance in a marble palace. But when the aristocratic Julienne married Franz, she had no foreboding of his legacy, the dark secret violence hidden in his ancestral halls. With a treasure of jewels stitched to her petticoat and her children by her side, she dared to flee her husband's shameful abuse -- and leave the glittering privileges of wealth and position forever. From Vienna to Paris, as the flames of war swept across Europe, through the horrors of plague and privation, she fought for her children and a fragile new love -- one that would have to face the tortured past if it were to survive the Winter of the Heart.

The Treasury of English Poetry


Mark Caldwell - 1984