This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Ninetee

Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understan