Three Victorian games & pastimes
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Author | : Robert MacGregor |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104362041 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Pamela Horn |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445612402 |
Richly illustrated with artwork and contemporary cartoons, this is a fascinating and engaging account of a neglected aspect of Victorian life.
Author | : James Hoggarth |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781436840279 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Martin Toseland |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1448156831 |
Remember Blind Man's Bluff, Pin the Tail and Murder in the Dark? Making daisy chains and collecting conkers? And when rainy afternoons meant card games and battleships? Jam-packed with games and activities for all ages, 365 Family Games and Pastimes remembers all the classics we used to love, bringing them back for the entire family to enjoy. Full of inspiration and thrifty ideas, this is an indispensible collection for birthday parties, family holidays and everyday fun.
Author | : Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022637128X |
The game of love -- A leisured class -- Healthy excitement and scientific play -- Real tennis and the scoring system -- The growth of a sporting culture -- On the Riviera -- What's wrong with women? -- A match out of Henry James -- The lonely American -- The four musketeers -- Working-class heroes -- Tennis in Weimar and after -- As a man grows older -- Three women -- This sporting life -- Home from the war -- Gorgeous girls -- Opening play -- Those also excluded -- Tennis meets feminism -- That's entertainment -- Bad behaviour -- Corporate tennis -- Women's power -- Vorsprung durch Technik -- Celebrity stars -- Millennium tennis -- The rhetoric of sport -- Back to the future.
Author | : David Block |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1496214161 |
Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played with a soft ball on a smaller playing field and, instead of a bat, the ball was typically struck by the palm of the hand. There is no doubt, however, that this simpler English version of baseball was the original form of the pastime and was the immediate forerunner of its better-known American offspring. Strictly a social game, English baseball was played for nearly two hundred years before fading away at the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite its longevity and its important role in baseball’s evolution, however, today it has been completely forgotten. In Pastime Lost David Block unearths baseball’s buried history and brings it back to life, illustrating how English baseball was embraced by all sectors of English society and exploring some of the personalities, such as Jane Austen and King George III, who played the game in their childhoods. While rigorously documenting his sources, Block also brings a light touch to his story, inviting us to follow him on some of the adventures that led to his most important discoveries. Purchase the audio edition.
Author | : C. S. Friedman |
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Release | : 2021-12-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781737977841 |
Parlor games, card games, games of skill, conjuring, puzzles, and outdoor games, as described in Collier's 1883 Encyclopedia of Social and Commercial Knowledge, complete with original Victorian embellishments
Author | : Rachel Bryant Davies |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526128918 |
This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
Author | : Edward Verrall Lucas |
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Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Amusements |
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