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1807Wordsworth, 'Daffodils'
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1811Jane Austen letter
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1811Guide to fashion and etiquette
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1815Alphabet books
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1815Soldier's letter: Battle of Waterloo
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1816Jane Austen, Persuasion
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1817P B Shelley, 'Ozymandias'
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1817Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy
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1818Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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1818Coleridge's notes on Shakespeare
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1819Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'
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1819Lord Byron, Don Juan
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1821Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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1824Grammar for children
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1825Yorkshire dialect
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1825Punctuation for children
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1826Anti-slavery poem
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1827Diary description of London
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1829Execution of a 12 year old boy
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1835Modern Flash Dictionary
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1837Dickens, Oliver Twist
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1837London dialect in Dickens
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1838Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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1842Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
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1843Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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1846Lear's Book of Nonsense
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1847Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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1847Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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1848The Communist Manifesto
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1850'How do I love thee?'
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1852Poverty and the workhouse
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1854Poor Letter H
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1854'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
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1855Get your ‘air cut!
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1855Cookery for the poor
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1857Mary Seacole's autobiography
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1857Mary Seacole newspaper article
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1858Nursery rhymes
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1860Florence Nightingale letter
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1860Coal mining
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1860The Woman in White
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1861Mrs Beeton
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1861Mrs Beeton's Christmas
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1861Melodrama: East Lynne
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1862Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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1864The Queen's English
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1866Letter from Charles Darwin
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1867Text message poetry
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1871George Eliot, Middlemarch
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1872Music Hall
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1875Victorian fashion
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1875Freakshow posters
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1876Street sellers
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1878Invention of the telephone
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1878Illusionists and conjurers
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1879Oxford English Dictionary
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1883Afrikaans novel
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1885Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
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1886Anglo-Indian dictionary
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1886Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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1887Circus poster
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1888Jack the Ripper murders
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1888Match Girls Strike
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1891Babu English
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1891Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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1894Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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1895H G Wells, The Time Machine
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1898English 'down under'
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Mary Seacole was a freelance nurse who worked in the Crimean War, caring for wounded British soldiers. She became a heroine of the war, her strength of character and kindness compared to that of Florence Nightingale.
Born in slave-era Jamaica to a white Scottish father and free black Jamaican mother, she had learned folk medicine as a child, and in 1854 she travelled to England to help in the war effort. Not put off by rejections from the authorities, Seacole paid from her own pocket for her own voyage to the Crimea. She set up a hotel which sold supplies, medical services - and alcohol. Florence Nightingale disapproved of the alcohol, but 'Mother Seacole' and her hotel were popular with the soldiers.
After the war she returned to England ill and penniless. The press highlighted her plight. In July 1857 a fund-raising festival for her attracted thousands of people, including many VIPs, and raised substantial funds. This newspaper article describes the event. Her memoirs, 'The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands', also proved extremely popular.
Shelfmark: Saturday, December 19, 1857, The Bristol Mercury, British Library Newspaper Archive.
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