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In this article, there are many railroad servants who are thinking of doing a strike for better wages and shorter work hours. This gives insight to the type of lifestyle and treatment these men were getting before they started to rebel. Luckily, many…

This artifact is a newspaper advertisement for stereoscopes, and stereoscope slides that depict numerous objects and scenes, including a scene that shows a ghost. This advertisement shows a merging of Victorian literature and storytelling with the…

This article, "Healthy Homes" is published in the exact newspaper as "Alicia's Diary" was for the first time. It appears right after the first installment of "Alicia's Diary", separated only by a small break in the page. It is interesting that these…

This is a page of classified ads in the The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent for the original publication of Alicia's Diary. The ad has contains the early review's of the the story along with naming some of Hardy's other works. The ad is written as…

Described by the online database "The Illustrated London News: Historical Archive" as having been originally printed under the newspaper's "Politics and Parliament" section, this 1874 article details the passing of an Act of Parliament as an…

The essay shown in these items discusses suicide in England during the Victorian era, describing it as a common occurrence that is caused by a general "moral madness." The majority of the article discusses the legal consequences of suicide, and how a…

This piece was published in the same issue which Margaret Oliphant's The Library Window was originally published. The pieces are featured in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 issue. I find it interesting that this piece written about…

This is Margaret Oliphant's Obituary which was published in The Englishwoman's Review. Oliphant passed away June 25, 1897. Interestingly enough, this women's based periodical was one of the only places I found Oliphant's obituary. The obituary…

This "Morning News" article from the June 21, 1865 publishing of The Belfast Morning News details the horrific train accident which occurred on June 9th as a result of construction near the village of Staplehurst. The accident, in which a section of…

This ad for men’s clothing relates to the passage from "The Grey Woman" in several ways. The first is that that the advertisement shows the type of clothing that men at that time wore. The most interesting part of ad is the images of the men. How…