This edition seeks to explore a fascinating but hitherto often neglected side of the British nineteenth century by bringing together a collection of annotated primary texts and visual material documenting these "temples of luxury" as they were seen by their contemporaries.

VOLUME I HOTELSList of FiguresxiAcknowledgmentsxiiIntroduction 11 Nerot’s Hotel 91.1[Advertisement] (1775) 111.2‘Lord Nelson’ (1800) 121.3‘Nerot’s Hotel and Bath’ (1805) 131.4‘Burnand vs. Nerot’ (1830) 14RICHARD BLIGH2 Grillion’s Hotel 212.1‘Grillon’s’ (1815) 232.2A Visit to Grillion’s in 1814 (1905) 24FRANCES BURNEY2.3 Grillion’s Club From Its Origin in 1812 toIts Fiftieth Anniversary(1880) 28P. G. E.3 ‘Riot at Birmingham’ (1791) 314 Walks Through Bath (1819) 35PIERCE EGAN5 Reminiscences of Captain Gronow (1862) 39REES HOWELL GRONOW6 Arrivals 436.1‘Arrivals in London’ (1825) 456.2‘Fashionable Arrivals’ (1833) 487 Licensing Hotels 517.1‘Hotel Licenses’ (1828) 537.2‘Licensing Hotels’ (1828) 568 Celebrating the Opening of a New Hotel 598.1‘Birkenhead New Hotel’ (1820) 618.2‘St. Leonard’s’ (1829) 628.3‘Hastings, Oct. 30’ (1829) 639 New Guide to the Royal Leamington Spa, the NeighbouringTowns, and Surrounding Country (1839) 6510 The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places:Northern Spas (1841) 71A . B . G R A N V I L L E11 Brighton 7911.1 The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places:Southern Spas(1841) 81A . B . G R A N V I L L E11.2‘The Grand Hotel at Brighton’ (1864) 8512 ‘Temperance Coffee-Houses’ (1842) 8913 Sketches from the Diary of a Commercial Traveller (1847) 93THRONE CRICK14 ‘English and Foreign Hotels’ (1847) 10115 ‘Mivart’s Hotel: House of Call for Ex-Emperors, Ex-Kings,and Ex-Royalty in General’ (1848) 10916 ‘Chester and Holyhead Line’ (1848) 11317 The 1853 Hotel Charges Debate in The Times 11717.1‘English Hotels. To the Editor of The Times’ (1853) 119A YOUNG MAN17.2‘Hotel Charges. To the Editor of The Times’ (1853) 121A V I C T I M17.3‘Hotel Charges. To the Editor of The Times’ (1853) 123A N A M E R I C A N T R AV E L L E R17.4‘To the Editor of The Times’ (1853) 125A C O M M E R C I A L T R AV E L L E R17.5‘To the Editor of The Times’ (1853) 126AN HOTELKEEPER17.6‘The Hotel-Keepers and the “Times”. To the Editor of theDaily News’ (1853) 128JUSTUS18 ‘Out of Town’ (1855) 131CHARLES DICKENS19 The English Hotel Nuisance (1855) 137ALBERT SMITH20 George Augustus Sala and the Great Hotel Question 14920.1‘The Great Hotel Question’ (1856) 151[GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA]20.2‘English Hotels’ (1856) 155[GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA]21 ‘The Grosvenor Hotel’ (1860) 16122 ‘Expenses in Scotland’ (1861) 167THOMAS COOK23 Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (1861) 17324 ‘The Modern Gigantic Hotel System. (Written Expresslyfor “The Era”)’ (1863) 17925 ‘Mammoth Hotels’ (1863) 18526 The Langham Hotel 19726.1‘The Langham Hotel’ (1865) 19926.2‘The Kitchen of the Langham Hotel’ (1865) 20226.3‘Ouida’ (1870) 204CELIA LOGAN KELLOGG26.4‘Our Monthly Gossip’ (1870) 20527 ‘Opening Dinner of the Salisbury Hotel’ (1865) 20728 ‘Some Big Hotels’ (1865) 21529 ‘Hotel Management’ (1866) 22330 ‘Letters to Joseph, No. II – On the Wing. Part I’ (1866) 229EDMUND YATES31 Clunyhill Hydropathic Establishment 23331.1 Morayshire Described(1868) 235J. & W. WATSON31.2‘Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Forres’ (1870) 23732 The Taxing of Hotel Waiters 24332.1‘The Taxing of Hotel Waiters’ (1871) 24532.2‘Taxation of Hotel Waiters’ (1871) 24733 ‘English Hotel Life’ (1872) 249F. A.34 ‘The Midland Railway and Its Hotels’ (1875) 259HENRY LAKE35 Hotel Keepers and Their Guests 26935.1‘Important Action Against a Brighton Hotel Keeper’(1877) 27135.2‘The Liabilities of Innkeepers. – “Spice v. Bacon”’(1877) 27535.3‘Hotel Keepers and Their Guests’ (1897) 27736 Handbook to London as It Is: New Edition Revised (1879) 27937 The Comprehensive History of the Rise and Progress of theTemperance Reformation (1881) 285PETER TURNER WINSKILL38 Swimming at Ilfracombe 28938.1‘Swimming Entertainment at the Ilfracombe Hotel Baths’(1882) 29138.2‘Ilfracombe Baths Aquatic Fete. Professor Parker’s Benefit’(1887) 29338.3‘Ilfracombe Hotel Baths’ (1891) 29439 ‘Catering Experience of an English Manager’ (1889) 29540 American Hotels for Women 30340.1‘“Hotel Me, Gentle Stranger!”’ (1891) 30540.2‘Wanted – a Woman’s Hotel. An American Suggestionfor Londoners’ (1898) 30741 ‘The New Station Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne’ (1893) 311WILLIAM BELL42 Working Conditions 31942.1‘Work and Wages in Hotels and Restaurants’ (1892) 321C. H. D’E. LEPPINGTON42.2 Report on the Conditions of Work of Barmaids, Waitresses,and Book-Keepers Employed in Hotels, Restaurants,Public-Houses and Other Places of Refreshment(1893) 328MISS [ELIZA] ORME43 ‘Nine p.m.: After Dinner at the Hotel Brobdingnag’ (1894) 331GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA44 ‘Hotel Designing’ (1895) 339W[ILLIAM] HAMILTON BEATTIE45 The Arrest of Oscar Wilde 34545.1‘Arrest of Oscar Wilde’ (1895) 34745.2 The Shame of Oscar Wilde: From the Shorthand Reports(1906) 352CHARLES GROLLEAU46 Dining Out in London 35746.1 Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London(1899) 359[ N AT H A N I E L ] L I E U T.- C O L . N E W N H A M - D AV I S46.2 A Guide to Modern Cookery(1907) 366AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER47 The Poor Man’s Hotel 37147.1‘In the Poor Man’s Hotel, London’ (1899) 37347.2‘A “Poor Man’s Hotel” for Liverpool’ (1900) 38148 Behind the Scenes of a Large Hotel 38348.1 The Grand Babylon Hotel: A Fantasia on ModernThemes(1902) 385ARNOLD BENNETT48.2‘The Day’s Work III. –A Great London Hotel’ (1903) 39249 ‘Hotels and Hotel Life in New York’ (1903) 401WALTER T. STEPHENSON50 Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905) 413H. G. WELLS51 ‘How Hotel Swindlers Work’ (1910) 423IndexVOLUME II DEPARTMENT STORESList of FiguresxiAcknowledgmentsxiiiIntroduction: Department Stores: Precursors,Establishments, Alternatives 1LISE SHAPIRO SANDERS AND SUSANNE SCHMID1 Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures,Fashions and Politics 9RUDOLPH ACKERMANN (ED.)1.1‘Harding, Howell, & Co.’s Grand FashionableMagazine, No. 89, Pall-Mall’ (1809) 111.2‘Messrs. Morgan and Sanders’s Ware-Room,Catherine-Street, Strand’ (1809) 132 The Bazaar, Its Origins, Nature, and Objects Explained (1816) 15JOSEPH NIGHTINGALE3 Walks Through Bath (1819) 23PIERCE EGAN4 A Visit to the Bazaar (1820) 275 ‘The Lowther Arcade’ (1832) 356 ‘London Shops’ (1834) 417 ‘A Short Account of St. John’s Market’ (1835) 47J. A. P.8 On the Construction and Decoration of the Shop Frontsof London (1840) 53N[ATHANIEL] WHITTOCK9 ‘The Lady Shopping’ (1841) 6310 ‘Shops of London’ (1841) 6911 ‘The Belle of the Burlington Arcade’ (1845) 73F. O. WARD12 Selection of Articles From Punch, or The London Charivari 8112.1‘Important to Shopkeepers’ (1844) 8312.2‘Dramatic Shopmen’ (1845) 8512.3‘Geography for Young Ladies’ (1846) 8612.4‘The Shops at Christmas’ (1849) 8713 The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace 9113.1‘History of the Great Exhibition’ (1851) 9313.2‘A Glance at the Exhibition’ (1851) 9513.3Charlotte Brontë’s Letters on the Great Exhibition (1908) 10214 ‘Arcadia’ (1853) 105[GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA]15 ‘Mr. Gye’s Plan for a Glass Street’ (1855) 11516 ‘London Shops, Old and New’ (1857) 119CHARLES MANBY SMITH17 ‘Shawls, and Where They Come From.Cashmere Goat’ (1858) 12718 ‘Westbourne Grove, Paddington’ (1860) 13719 Punch on the International Exhibition 14119.1‘Exhibitors and Their Advertisements’ (1862) 14319.2‘Shopping at the World’s Show’ (1862) 14520 ‘The Royal Polytechnic, Glasgow, the Grand Centreof Attraction During the Holidays’ (1864) 14721 Leisure Hour 15121.1‘Shopping Without Money’ (1865) 15321.2‘Going a Shopping’ (1866) 16022 The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson:By One of the Firm (1870) 165ANTHONY TROLLOPE23 ‘Lunch with the Linendrapers’ (1872) 17724 ‘The Arrangement of Departments’ (1874) 183‘VIDI’25 Co-operative Stores 19125.1‘The Shopkeepers and the Co-operative Stores’ (1874) 19325.2‘Domestic Puzzles: Where Shall I Buy – Shopsor Stores?’ (1879) 195MRS. WIGLEY26 ‘The Philosophy of Shopping’ (1875) 203[ELIZA LYNN LINTON]27 Reminiscences of an Old Draper (1876) 209[WILLIAM H. ABLETT]28 Warehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal 21728.1‘Girls Behind the Counter’ (1876) 21928.2‘Small and Large Shops’ (1876) 22128.3‘Kleptomania’ (1876) 22329 ‘Afternoon Strolls I: A Japanese Warehouse’ (1876) 225EDWARD W. GODWIN30 ‘Girl Labour in London’ (1877) 22931 City Jackdaw (Manchester) 23531.1‘Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks’ Schools’ (1878) 23731.2‘In the Show-Room. [By a Lady Contributor]’ (1879) 23932 ‘Leviathan Shops and Stores’ (1881) 24133 Building News 25133.1‘Shop Fronts’ (1881) 253J. G. LIBRA33.2‘Shop-Windows: – III’ (1881) 264J. G. LIBRA34 ‘ The Ladies’ Paradise ’ (1883) 267ÉMILE ZOLA35 A Guide to Window-Dressing: Reprinted from theWarehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal (1883) 27536 Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) 281THOMAS SUTHERST37 ‘The Riot in the West-End’ (1886) 28938 The Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 29738.1‘The Manchester Jubilee Exhibition. – II. Furnitureand Decoration’ (1887) 29938.2‘The Manchester Jubilee Exhibition. – III. Furnitureand Decoration’ (1887) 30439 ‘A Little Shopping’ (1892) 309WILLIAM MORRIS40 The Odd Women (1893) 317GEORGE GISSING41 ‘A Few Facts About the Living-In-System’ (1894) 325C. R. FENDER42 The Musical Comedy The Shop Girl (1894–96) 33542.1‘The Royal Stores’ and ‘We’ll Proceed to Search for Ada’from Th e Shop Girl 337H. J. W. DAM42.2‘“The Shop Girl”, at the Gaiety Theatre’ (1894) 34043 ‘The Ethics of Shopping’ (1895) 345M. JEUNE [LADY JEUNE]44 The Parisian Diamond Company, New Premisesat 143 Regent Street, Opposite Liberty’s[Advertisement] (1897) 35545 Texts by Margaret Bondfi eld 35945.1‘Conditions Under Which Shop Assistants Work’ (1899) 36145.2‘Christmas Shop Slaves’ (1907) 37146 ‘A Woman’s Shopping’ (1901) 375R. NEISH47 ‘A Woman’s Note-Book: How Shopping AffectsWoman – and Man’ (1905) 387LADY PHYLLIS48 ‘The Design and Architectural Treatment of theShop’ (1913) 391H. V. LANCHESTER49 Bainbridge, Newcastle 40349.1[Advertisement for the ‘French Room’] (1846) 40549.2‘The Great Northern Exhibition of the Industryof All Nations’ (1851) 40649.3‘The Early Closing Association: Gatheringof Employes of Albert House’ (1867) 40849.4 Memoir of Emerson Muschamp Bainbridgeof Newcastle-on-Tyne(1893) 411THOMAS DARLINGTON (ED.)50 The Albion Bazaar, Manchester 41750.1‘New Bazaar’ (1831) 41950.2‘Joseph Joyce’ (1831) 42050.3‘Manchester Floral & Horticultural Society’ (1831) 42150.4‘Manchester Floral and Horticultural Society’ (1831) 42250.5 The Courier(1831) 42350.6‘John, Samuel, and James Watts’ (1832) 42451 Whiteley’s ‘Universal Provider’, London 42551.1‘William Whiteley’s Establishment in Westbourne-Grove,Paddington’ (1875) 42751.2‘Topics of the Day by the Heroes of the Hour. No.X. – My Success in Life. By Mr. W. Whiteley’ (1884) 42951.3‘Why Is Whiteley’s So Often Burned Down?’ (1887) 43552 Harrod’s, London 43952.1Advertisement (1897) 44152.2‘How, When, and Where to Shop: A Day at Harrod’s,Limited’ (1902) 44452.3Opening Stage Description and Two Songs:‘Act I – Opening Chorus’ and ‘Finale – Act I’ fromOur Miss Gibbs(1909) 44853 Selfridge’s, London 45553.1‘The Opening of Selfridge’s’ (1909) 45753.2‘Some Departments for Men at Selfridge’s (1909) 46054 ‘Citizens, Awake! Rising of Militant Women:Scenes Described by an Eye-Witness’ (1912) 463Index