ABSTRACT
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume, ‘Manufactured Things’, will consider mass produced industrial and domestic objects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction to Volume IV
The industrial revolution and the mass production of commodities
part 1|47 pages
The context of manufacturing in Victorian Britain
chapter 2|6 pages
George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or the Manufacturing Industries of Great Britain Described [Extract]
(London, 1843), pp. 1–16
chapter 3|3 pages
Richard H. Horne, ‘The Female School of Design in the Capital of the World’
Household Words, Vol. 2 (15 March 1851), pp. 578–581
chapter 4|1 pages
Image: ‘Calico Printing’
Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2 (1852–1854), p. 279
chapter 5|6 pages
John Capper, ‘The Northern Wizard’
Household Words, Vol. 3, no. 189 (5 November 1853), pp. 225–228
chapter 7|7 pages
Karl Marx, ‘The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof’
Capital (1867) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co. Ltd., 1902), pp. 41–50
chapter 8|3 pages
Anon, ‘Sewing Machines’
All the Year Round, Vol. 1 (new series), No. 17 27 March 1869, pp. 395–397
chapter 9|5 pages
Lyon Playfair, ‘On Patents and the New Patent Bill’
Nineteenth Century (April 1877), pp. 317–319, 321–323, 325–326
chapter 10|2 pages
J. T. Slugg, Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago
(Manchester, 1881), pp. 27–28, 37–38
part 2|173 pages
Textiles
chapter 11|2 pages
Edward Baines, History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain
(London, 1835), pp. 335–337, 358
chapter 12|13 pages
Anon, ‘A Day at the Nottingham Lace Manufactories’
The Penny Magazine (26 March 1843), pp. 113, 115–120
chapter 13|9 pages
Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, ‘Spitalfields’
Household Words, Vol. 3 (5 April 1851), pp. 25–30
chapter 14|6 pages
John Capper, ‘British Cotton’
Household Words, Vol. 5, no. 106 (3 April 1852), pp. 51–54
chapter 15|3 pages
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
(London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1897), pp. 54–55, 97–98
chapter 16|10 pages
Edward Baines, ‘On the Woollen Manufacture of England; With Special Reference to the Leeds Clothing District’
Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 22, no. 1 (March 1859), pp. 1–9, 11–14
chapter 17|2 pages
‘The Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, Weaver 1860–64’
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 5 (1953): 176–184
chapter 18|1 pages
Image: ‘Cotton Printing’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 5 (London: [n.p.], c. 1870)
chapter 19|1 pages
Image: ‘Wool Machinery’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 4 (London: [n.p.], c. 1870)
chapter 20|1 pages
Image: ‘Weaving Looms’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 4 (London: [n.p.], c. 1870)
chapter 22|2 pages
William Morris, ‘Textile Fabrics’
William Morris, Architecture, Industry and Wealth: Collected Papers (London: Longmans, Green S and Co., 1902), pp. 148–149, 161–163
chapter 24|3 pages
Thomas Hood, ‘The Song of the Shirt’ (1843)
chapter 25|9 pages
Harriet Martineau, ‘Rainbow Making’
Household Words, Vol. 4 (14 February 1852), pp. 485–490
chapter 26|7 pages
Samuel Sidney, ‘A Ladies’ Warehouse’
Household Words, Vol. 12 (27 October 1855), pp. 301–305
chapter 27|4 pages
Mrs Henry Wood, Mrs Halliburton's Troubles
(London & New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., n.d.) pp. 99–100, 107–108, 122, 134–135
chapter 30|17 pages
Edith Simcox, ‘Eight Years of Co-Operative Shirtmaking’
The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 15 (June 1884), pp. 1037–1054
chapter 31|6 pages
Ada Heather-Bigg, ‘Women and the Glove Trade’
The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 30 (December 1891), pp. 939–944, 946–947
chapter 32|4 pages
‘Carpets’
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, 2 vols. (London: Spicer Brothers, W. Clowes and Sons, 1852), pp. 1037–1040
chapter 33|5 pages
Professor Archer, ‘On the Progress of Our Art Industries’
The Art Journal (June 1875), pp. 177–178
chapter 34|4 pages
Harold Cox, ‘How Real Axminster is Made – A Visit to the Only Factory in England’
Time: A Monthly Magazine, October 1890, pp. 1067–1071
chapter 35|4 pages
David Paterson, The Colour Printing of Carpet Yarns: A Useful Manual for Colour-Chemists and Textile Printers
(London: Scott and Greenwood, 1900), pp. 81–87
chapter 36|4 pages
Charles Dickens and Mark Lemon, ‘A Paper-Mill’
Household Words, Vol. 1 (31 August 1850), pp. 529–531
chapter 37|2 pages
Image: Wallpaper
The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue: The Industry of All Nations (London, 1851) pp. 129, 143
chapter 38|8 pages
Harriet Martineau, ‘Household Scenery’
Household Words, Vol. 5 (14 August 1852), pp. 513–519
chapter 39|7 pages
‘Cardboard’
Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of useful arts and manufactures, Vol. 2, ed. Charles Tomlinson (London: George Virtue, 1852–1854), pp. 321–324
chapter 40|5 pages
Harriet Martineau, ‘How to Get Paper’
Household Words, Vol. 10 (28 October 1854), pp. 241–245
chapter 41|1 pages
Anon, ‘Cigarette’
The London Journal and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art (1 November 1869), p. 229
part 3|108 pages
Metal goods
chapter 42|2 pages
Anon, ‘Pin-Making (From Sir George Head's Home Tour)’
The Mirror, Vol. 28 (9th July 1836), pp. 29–30
chapter 43|4 pages
Anon, ‘A Second Day at the Birmingham Factories’
Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 13 (28th December 1844), pp. 501–502
chapter 44|10 pages
Harriet Martineau, ‘Needles’
Household Words, Vol. 4 (28th February 1852), pp. 540–546
chapter 47|1 pages
‘Needles’
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. V (New York: The Century Co., 1895), p. 3956
chapter 48|10 pages
Anon, ‘A Day at the Sheffield Cutlery-Works’
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 13 (April 27 1844), pp. 161–165, 167–168
chapter 49|4 pages
Anon, ‘Fraudulent Trade Marks’
Once a Week, Vol. 8 (February 7, 1863), pp. 177–179
chapter 50|5 pages
Anon, ‘Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Limited’
The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 121 (July 1882), pp. 551–557
chapter 51|3 pages
Henry J. Palmer, ‘Cutlery and Cutlers at Sheffield’
The English Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 11 (August 1884), pp. 667–669
chapter 53|1 pages
Image: Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Selections From the ‘Old Table Day Book’
(Date approx. late 1800s), Museums Sheffield
chapter 54|1 pages
Image: ‘Fish-Slice and Fork, and Dessert-Knife’ (Messrs. J. Rodgers & Sons, of Sheffield)
Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Industry of All Nations [n.d.] (London: Bradbury & Evans, George Virtue, n.d.), p. 278
chapter 56|2 pages
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; Or, the Two Nations
(London: Henry Colburn, 1845), Book III, pp. 54–57
chapter 57|2 pages
Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
(London: John Murray, 1863), pp. 186–187
chapter 58|6 pages
Anon, ‘A Few Thoughts on Keys’
Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 12, November 1865, pp. 623–628
chapter 59|7 pages
J. C. Tildesley, ‘A Chapter on Locks and Keys’
Once a Week, Vol. 4 (9 November 1867), pp. 560–563
chapter 60|3 pages
Anon, ‘A Midland Tour; XVII – Wolverhampton’
The Leisure Hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation, 20 July 1872, pp. 462–463
chapter 61|3 pages
Images: ‘Lock’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 8 (London: [n.p.], c. 1870)
chapter 62|4 pages
‘Fire Irons’ and ‘Fenders, Grates, and Light Iron Castings’
The Resources, Products, and Industrial History of Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District; A series of reports, collected by the local industries committee of the British Association at Birmingham (London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866), pp. 662–666
chapter 63|2 pages
Anon, ‘William S. Burton, General Furnishing Ironmonger’
The Athenaeum, no. 2171 (Jun 5, 1869), p. 780
chapter 65|3 pages
Anon, ‘Musgrave & Co. (Limited), Stable Fitting and Stove Manufacturers, Belfast, London, Manchester, and Paris’
Wyman's Commercial Encyclopædia of Leading Manufacturers of Great Britain and their Productions; Being a Guide to Merchant Buyers All Over the World (London: Wyman, 1888), pp. 450–451
part 4|103 pages
Household goods
chapter 66|3 pages
Anon, ‘Leaves From the Mahogany Tree: Table Furniture (China and Glass Etc.)’
All the Year Round, Vol. 20 (17 October 1868), pp. 441–443
chapter 67|2 pages
Images: ‘Ceramic Arts’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Vol. 4 (London: c. 1870)
chapter 70|7 pages
Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns
2nd ed. (New York: G. H. Doran, 1903), pp. 135–148
chapter 71|4 pages
G. R. Porter, ‘On the Manufacture of Crown-Glass, Broad Glass, and Bottle Glass’
Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass (London: Longman, Brown and Green, 1832), pp. 182–187
chapter 72|6 pages
Luke Herbert, ‘Glass’
The Engineer's and Mechanics Encyclopaedia, Comprehending Practical Illustrations of the Machinery and Processes Employed in Every Description of Manufacture in the British Empire, Vol. 1 (London: Thomas Kelly, 1836), pp. 635–639
chapter 73|2 pages
Anon, ‘The Falcon Glass-Works’
The Busy Hives Around Us: A Variety of Trips and Visits to the Mine, the Workshop, and the Factory (London: James Hogg and Sons, c. 1850), pp. 165–168
chapter 75|6 pages
Alfred Crowquill, ‘The Service of Plate’
Temple Bar, Vol. 20 (May 1867), pp. 272–277
chapter 77|4 pages
Anon, ‘Electro-Deposition’
The National Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary ofUniversal Knowledge, Vol. 5 (London: [n.p.], c. 1870), pp. 782–786
chapter 78|14 pages
Anon, ‘A Day at a Soap and Candle Factory’
Penny Magazine for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 11 (January 29, 1842), pp. 41–47
chapter 80|6 pages
‘Some Good Reasons for Using Sunlight Soap’
Wellcome Collection, Unilever Archives, Lever Brothers, Ltd. [c. 1890]
chapter 81|1 pages
Image: ‘Vinolia Soap’
Unilever Collections, Unilever Art, Archives and Records Management, Port Sunlight, Archive ref. AFP 12/4/125 [c. 1890]
chapter 82|3 pages
Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles
(Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1856), pp. 17–21
chapter 83|1 pages
William Crookes, ‘Preface’ to Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before an Audience at the Royal Institution
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), pp. v–vii
chapter 84|10 pages
Joseph Hatton, ‘Candle-Making’
The English Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 105 (Jun 1892), pp. 703–712
chapter 85|1 pages
Image: James Mcneill Whistler, ‘Price's Candle-Works’
1876/1877, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
