Victorian & Edwardian Advertisements (original) (raw)

Introductory Material

• Advertisements in Victorian Books and Magazines
• The Language and Idiom of Advertisements Appearing in Magazines and Books
• Advertising and Reading

Subjects of Advertising

• Jewelry and related metalwork
• Patent medicines
• Soap and skin lotions

Depictions of Advertising and about Complaints about it

• Samuel on artificially created “wants” in the 1890 Cardiff Times
• Thomas Carlyle on Seven-foot Hats as Street Advertising
• Ford Madox Beown’s Work
• Sandwich-Men by Leonard Raven-Hill
• Sandwich-Men at the 1865 Finsbury Elections
• Dickens on Victorian Advertisements

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Last modified 26 March 2022