A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt (PDF) by David Yeandle

“…He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin’s Origin of Species and other radical scientific advances. …”
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A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt (XML) by David Yeandle

“…He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin’s Origin of Species and other radical scientific advances. …”
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A princess's pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's a pilgrimage to Mecca [introduction] by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

“…On returning, she wrote this witty, acerbic account of her journey. In it, we glimpse a process by which notions of the self could be redefined against a Muslim "other" in the colonial environment. …”
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Learn to write badly: how to succeed in the social sciences by Michael Billig

“…And which linguistic features contribute towards this bad writing? Michael Billig's witty and entertaining book analyses these questions in a quest to pinpoint exactly what is going wrong with the way social scientists write. …”
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Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London (PDF) by Leslie Howsam

“…Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigation in 1892, and participating actively in the women’s suffrage movement into the early twentieth century, is one such figure. …”
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