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142 STRAND: A RADICAL ADDRESS IN VICTORIAN LONDON

by Rosemary Ashton

Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st. 2006

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. An extraordinary circle gathered at 142 Strand - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill - the brightest lights of radical Britain, drawn by the charismatic John Chapman, a publisher like no other. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 386 pages including index.

Front hinge pulled but binding is tight. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, especially to rear panel.

ISBN: 9780701173708
Stock no. 1831181

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Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: John Chapman and the Strand in 1847
  • 1 Adventurous Publishing: Emerson, Strauss, Newman (1844-8)
  • 2 Publishing Sensation: The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
  • 3 Chapman, Marian Evans, and the Westminster Review (1851)
  • 4 Radical Reviewing and the Battle of the Booksellers (1851-2)
  • 5 The Struggle for Survival (1852-4)
  • 6 A Split in the Ranks (1854)
  • 7 Chapman's Radical Women
  • 8 Dr Chapman and Friends
  • Biographical Register
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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