Social Life in England 1750-1850

F. J. Foakes-Jackson (1855 - 1941)

In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces the mordant rural poet, George Crabbe, who began life as a surgeon apothecary and ended up as a parish rector who made house calls. He gives us a female convict, assorted Cambridge University dons, Regency fops and rakes, and Victorian slices of life from Dickens and Thackeray. In the last lecture we barrel over hedges and fences and through muddy lanes in headlong chase of the fox. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Family & Relationships

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:15:19
Play 02 Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:14:17
Play 03 Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:15:37
Play 04 Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:11:00
Play 05 Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:11:37
Play 06 Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:10:50
Play 07 Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 4 Pamela Nagami
00:12:12
Play 08 Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:23:12
Play 09 Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:22:02
Play 10 Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:13:50
Play 11 Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:14:40
Play 12 Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:14:44
Play 13 Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:15:48
Play 14 Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:16:56
Play 15 Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:17:25
Play 16 Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:14:09
Play 17 Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:16:40
Play 18 Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:16:40
Play 19 Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:14:15
Play 20 Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:13:44
Play 21 Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 3 Pamela Nagami
00:18:29
Play 22 Lecture 8: Sport, and Rural England, Pt. 1 Pamela Nagami
00:16:54
Play 23 Lecture 8: Sport, and Rural England, Pt. 2 Pamela Nagami
00:23:28