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by Simon Heffer


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  NOTES

  All abbreviations may be found in the Bibliography here.

  Prologue

  1. Bamford, p. 5.

  2. Stanley, p. 104.

  3. Collini, p. 19.

  4. Stanley, p. 30.

  5. Strachey, p. 180.

  6. Ibid. p. 181.

  7. Arnold, Sermons, Vol. II, p. 81.

  8. Stanley, p. 58.

  9. Ibid. p. 66.

  10. Ibid. p. 74.

  11. McCrum, pp. 45–6.

  12. Arnold, Sermons, Vol. V, p. 66.

  13. Ibid. p. 35.

  14. Ibid. Vol. IV, p. 9.

  15. Ibid. p. 30.

  16. Stanley, p. 59.

  17. Lowry, p. 3.

  18. Stanley, p. 61.

  19. Strachey, p. 188.

  20. Arnold, MW, p. 399.

  21. McCrum, p. 65.

  22. Stanley, p. 56. ‘Liberal party’ is an anachronism for the late 1820s.

  23. Ibid. p. 79.

  24. Ibid. p. 60.

  25. Ibid. p. 66.

  26. Ibid. p. 67.

  27. Ibid. p. 136.

  28. Strachey, p. 180.

  29. Stanley, p. 69.

  30. Edinburgh Review, April 1859, p. 557.

  31. Stanley, p. 62.

  32. Ibid. p. 57.

  33. Ibid. p. 74.

  34. McCrum, pp. 101–3.

  35. Strachey, p. 188.

  36. Ibid. p. 190.

  37. Stanley, p. 65.

  38. Ibid. p. 67.

  39. Strachey, p. 199.

  40. Ibid. p. 183.

  41. Ibid. p. 186.

  42. Stanley, p. 109.

  43. Ibid. p. 265.

  44. Strachey, p. 191.

  45. Ibid. p. 193.

  46. Stanley, p. 161.

  47. Ibid. p. 58.

  48. Ibid. p. 73.

  49. Arnold, Sermons, Vol. II, pp. 264–6.

  50. Arnold, MW, p. 232.

  51. Ibid. p. 233.

  52. Stanley, p. 223.

  53. Arnold, MW, p. 234.

  54. Stanley, p. 216.

  55. Arnold, MW, p. 423.

  56. Stanley, p. 227.

  57. Arnold, MW, p. 496.

  58. Ibid. p. 497.

  59. Ibid. p. 453.

  60. Ibid. p. 454.

  61. Ibid. p. 456.

  62. Ibid. pp. 459–60.

  63. Ibid. p. 499.

  64. Ibid. p. 500.

  65. Strachey, p. 202.

  66. Stanley, pp. 313–4.

  67. BL Add. MS 45241, ff. 8–9.

  68. BL Add. MS 45241, f. 10.

  69. Stanley, p. 104.

  70. Clough, Letters, Vol. I, p. 119.

  71. Stanley, (Preface), p. ix.

  72. Hughes, p. 104.

  73. Ibid. p. 105.

  74. Ibid. p. 261.

  75. Strachey, p. 178.

  76. Ibid. p. 185.

  77. Ibid. p. 206.

  78. BL Add. MS 45241, ff. 11–12.

  79. Lowry, p. 111.

  80. Willey, p. 60.

  81. Cockshut, p. 88.

  82. Briggs, People, p. 142.

  83. Symonds, p. 94.

  84. Ibid. p. 96.

  85. Ibid. p. 97.

  86. Ibid. p. 98.

  87. Ibid. p. 112.

  88. Ibid. p. 113.

  89. Butler, Flesh, p. 23.

  90. Mill, Later, Vol. III, p. 1246.

  Part 1: The Con
dition of England

  Chapter 1: The Angry Forties (here)

  1. The Times, 31 May 1842, p. 5.

  2. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 121–2.

  3. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 161–2.

  4. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 163–4.

  5. BL Add. MS 40434, f. 174.

  6. BL Add. MS 40434, f. 178.

  7. BL Add. MS 40434, f. 183.

  8. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 184–5.

  9. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 188–9.

  10. Carlyle, Letters, Vol. XIV, pp. 215–16.

  11. BL Add. MS 40434, ff. 65–6.

  12. BL Add. MS 40434, f. 81.

  13. Carlyle, Letters, Vol. XIV, p. 183.

  14. Gash, p. 339.

  15. Carlyle, Letters, Vol. XIV, p. 183.

  16. Hansard, Vol. 64, cols 785–7.

  17. Ibid. Vol. 64, col. 885.

  18. Ibid. Vol. 64, col. 867.

  19. Ibid. Vol. 64, col. 870.

  20. Ibid. Vol. 64, col. 862.

  21. Ibid. Vol. 64, cols 920–1.

  22. Carlyle, Works, Vol. X, p. 169.

  23. Hansard, Vol. 66, cols 1168–9.

  24. Gaskell, MB, p. 66.

  25. Kingsley, AL, p. 95.

  26. Dickens, LD, pp. 32–3.

  27. Hansard, Vol. 65, col. 412.

  28. Ibid. Vol. 65, col. 440.

  29. Quarterly Review, December 1842 (Vol. LXXI), pp. 158–9.

  30. Gash, p. 342.

  31. Greville, Part II, Vol. II, p. 98.

  32. Ibid. p. 119.

  33. Ibid. p. 136.

  34. Quarterly Review, December 1842 (Vol. LXXI), p. 134.

  35. Ibid. p. 137.

  36. Ibid. p. 144.

  37. BL Add. MS 40613, f. 53.

  38. Quarterly Review, December 1842 (Vol. LXXI), p. 156.

  39. Ibid. p. 153.

  40. Ibid. p. 154.

  41. Ibid. p. 171.

  42. Hansard, Vol. 66, col. 449.

  43. Ibid. Vol. 66, col. 463.

  44. Ibid. Vol. 66, col. 474.

  45. BL Add. MS 44777, f. 108.

  46. Hansard, Vol. 66, col. 834.

  47. Ibid. Vol. 66, col. 835.

  48. Ibid. Vol. 66, col. 1163.

  49. Ibid. Vol. 66, cols 1179–80.

  50. BL Add. MS 40483, f. 37.

  51. Ibid. Vol. 66, col. 1205.

  Chapter 2: Noblesse Oblige (here)

  1. Stanley, p. 284. The Latin implies that the vulgar will not take notice until they are threatened with going hungry.

 

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