Social Life in England 1750-1850: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Social Life in England 1750-1850, credited to F. J. Foakes-Jackson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Social Life in England 1750-1850 by F. J. Foakes-Jackson. Read in English by Pamela Nagami 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.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Social Life in England 1750-1850
• Author credits: F. J. Foakes-Jackson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 6:03:48

Catalogue topics

• 18th Century
• Charles Dickens
• Victorian era
• 19th century
• anthony trollope
• workhouse
• social life
• lowell lectures

Track guide

1. 01 - Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 1 — 15:19
2. 02 - Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 2 — 14:16
3. 03 - Lecture 1: Life in the Eighteenth Century Illustrated by the Career of John Wesley, Pt. 3 — 15:36
4. 04 - Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 1 — 11:00
5. 05 - Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 2 — 11:37
6. 06 - Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 3 — 10:50
7. 07 - Lecture 2: George Crabbe, Pt. 4 — 12:12
8. 08 - Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 1 — 23:12
9. 09 - Lecture 3: Margaret Catchpole, Pt. 2 — 22:02
10. 10 - Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 1 — 13:50
11. 11 - Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 2 — 14:40
12. 12 - Lecture 4: Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge,' Pt. 3 — 14:44
13. 13 - Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 1 — 15:48
14. 14 - Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 2 — 16:56
15. 15 - Lecture 5: Creevey Papers--The Regency, Pt. 3 — 17:25
16. 16 - Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 1 — 14:09
17. 17 - Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 2 — 16:40
18. 18 - Lecture 6: Social Abuses as Exposed by Charles Dickens, Pt. 3 — 16:40
19. 19 - Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 1 — 14:15
20. 20 - Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 2 — 13:44
21. 21 - Lecture 7: Mid-Victorianism. W.M. Thackeray, Pt. 3 — 18:29
22. 22 - Lecture 8: Sport, and Rural England, Pt. 1 — 16:54
23. 23 - Lecture 8: Sport, and Rural England, Pt. 2 — 23:28

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