Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
Roehampton University
Book title
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN of book
9780413776440
Year of publication
2008
URL
-
Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
The book incorporates a large amount of archival material in Britain and Australia:
•Criminal records for 80 Urania women in regional Sessions Papers in West Sussex, London Metropolitan Sessions, and the Old Bailey (not available online before 2008)
•Sun Fire Insurance records; local history archives in Hammersmith, Hertford, Lambeth Palace, City of Westminster, Trowbridge, Sandon Hall (Staffs)
•rate books, wills, birth, marriage and death certificates in Adelaide and Melbourne public record offices in Australia
•tracing of and correspondence with 12 descendants of emigrants (Urania and other) in Australia and Canada
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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