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Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our
best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns'
poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn's adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have
supported, guided, comforted, nursed and at times betrayed the
heroes and heroines of our popular and influential plays and
novels. This book explores twenty-four literary friendships and,
together with character studies and publication history, describes
how each key relationship influences character, determines plot,
promotes or disguises romance, preserves a reputation, sometimes
results in betrayal, or underlines the theme of each literary work.
It shows how authors from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante
have by turns celebrated, lamented or transformed friendships
throughout the ages, and how some friends - Don Quixote and Sancho
Panza, Holmes and Watson or even Bridget Jones and pals - have
taken on creative lives beyond the bounds of their original
narrative. Including a broad scope of literature spanning a period
of 400 years from writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Charles
Dickens, George Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck and Alice
Walker, this book is the ideal gift for your literature-loving
friend.
First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian
likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It
discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor,
the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall
of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to
national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as
well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this
happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or
villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar
and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students
of history.
First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian
likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It
discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor,
the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall
of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to
national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as
well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this
happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or
villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar
and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students
of history.
Life, Death and Rubbish Disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire:
Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-16 reports on excavations in
advance of the development of a site in Norton-on-Derwent, North
Yorkshire close to the line of the main Roman road running from the
crossing point of the River Derwent near Malton Roman fort to York
(Eboracum). The Brooklyn House site provided much information on
aspects of the poorly understood ‘small town’ of Delgovicia.
The area came to be used for apparently widely-dispersed burials in
the mid-3rd century AD. Among these was the bustumtype burial of a
soldier, or former soldier, which produced a well-preserved
assemblage of military equipment and incorporated some
‘non-standard’ features. In addition, evidence was found for a
possible mausoleum. During the late third and fourth centuries the
burial activity was succeeded by occupation in the form of
substantial stone-founded, or in some cases possibly stone-built
buildings fronting onto the Roman road which was the main approach
road to the town from the south. These structures could have been
related in some way to the Norton Roman pottery industry, the core
area of which was located to the east of the site, although no
evidence from them suggested this. Following the fairly short-lived
occupation, much of the site was used for the disposal of large
quantities of rubbish and structural debris that presumably
originated from locations closer to or beyond the river crossing,
including possibly the Roman fort. The Roman pottery assemblage
incorporated in excess of 21,000 sherds and adds considerably to
our knowledge of pottery use and production in Roman Malton/Norton.
Similarly, the substantial and well-preserved Roman-period finds
assemblage provides insights, not only into the bustum burial but
also wider aspects of life in Delgovicia. Within the assemblage,
there were some unusual and rarely found individual items such as a
pair of iron-working tongs, a two-link snaffle bit and a bone
needle case, as well as a wide range of other material including
military equipment, jewellery, styli and a possible scroll holder.
The medieval and later pottery from the site provides a baseline
for work on assemblages recovered from Malton/Norton in the future.
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