A quarterly journal concerned with British studies

TABLE OF CONTENTS

559 Providence, Predestination and Progress: or, did the Enlightenment Fail?
J. C. D. Clark

590 Building a New Nursing Service: Respectability and Efficiency in Victorian
England
Carol Helmstadter

Reviews of Books

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. Volume I: Domesday Book. Volume II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. by W. SCOTT JESSEE, 622

Peter Coss and Maurice Keen, eds. Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in
Medieval England. by DONALD F. FLEMING, 624

Colin Morris and Peter Roberts, eds. Pilgrimage: The English Experience from
Becket to Bunyan. by ANDREW BROWN, 625

Mary C. Erler. Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England. by MOIRA FITZGIBBONS, 627

Kathleen Kamerick. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350–1500. by GERVASE ROSSER, 628

Richard Rex. The Lollards. by CAROLINE LITZENBERGER, 630

Jonathan Woolfson, ed. Reassessing Tudor Humanism. by MARIA DOWLING, 631

Peter Marshall. Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. by DANAE TANKARD, 633

Marjo Kaartinen. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation.
by HELEN M. E. EVANS, 634

Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism.
by BAIRD TIPSON, 635

Cameron A. MacKenzie. The Battle for the Bible in England, 1557–1582.
by CHRISTOPHER HAIGH, 637

David Grummitt, ed. The English Experience in France, c. 1450–1558: War,
Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange. by JOHN WATTS, 638

Joseph Loewenstein. The Author’s Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. by CYNDIA SUSAN CLEGG, 640

Patricia Phillippy. Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.
by DANIELLE E. CLARKE, 641

Vanessa Harding. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670.
by LUCINDA MCCRAY BEIER, 643

D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. by JOHANN P. SOMMERVILLE, 644

Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds. Provincial Towns in Early Modern
England and Ireland: Change, Convergence and Divergence. by ROBERT TITTLER, 646

Joel D. Benson. Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the
Seventeenth Century: Alderman Cockayne’s Project. by JOSEPH P. WARD, 647

Richard L. Greaves. Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.
by ISABEL RIVERS, 648

John Watkins. Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History,
Sovereignty. by SHAWNDRA HOLDERBY, 650

G. E. Aylmer. The Crown’s Servants: Government and Civil Service Under Charles II, 1660–1685. by ROBERT BUCHOLZ, 651

David M. Turner. Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England,
1660–1740. by BRIAN COWAN, 653

Lois G. Schwoerer. The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist.
by VICTOR STATER, 654

Anne Kugler. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper,
1644–1720. by HANNAH GREIG, 656

S. D. Smith, ed. “An Exact and Industrious Tradesman”: The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711–1720. by JOHN SMAIL, 658

Susan Mitchell Sommers. Parliamentary Politics of a County and Its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth Century. by BOB HARRIS, 659

John Kent. Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
by RICHARD P. HEITZENRATER, 660

Tom Williamson. The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the
Landscape 1700–1870. by MATT OSBORN, 662

Rajani Sudan. Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720–1850. by DAVID P. HANEY, 663

Michael T. Davis, ed. London Corresponding Society, 1792–1799.
by JEREMY BLACK, 665

Gesa Stedman. Stemming the Torrent: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotions, 1830–1872. by ADELA PINCH, 666

F. David Roberts. The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.
by ANTHONY BRUNDAGE, 667

Frank M. Turner. John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. by PETER B. NOCKLES, 669

Richard Maxwell, ed. The Victorian Illustrated Book. by WILLIAM S. PETERSON, 673

Joan DelPlato. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem,
1800–1875. by KENNETH BENDINER, 675

William M. Kuhn. Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria. by MARJORIE MORGAN, 677

Nadia Urbinati. Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government. by BRUCE L. KINZER, 678

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions. by JAY M. PASACHOFF, 680

Pamela K. Gilbert, ed. Imagined Londons. by DEBORAH NORD, 683

Wendy M. Gordon. Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women’s Independent
Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850–1881.
by MARGARET H. MCFADDEN, 685

Leigh Wright. Julian Pauncefote and British Imperial Policy, 1855–1889.
by TRAVIS L. CROSBY, 687

Lawrence Goldman. Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857–1886. by RONALD K. HUCH, 688

Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829–1914. by STANLEY H. PALMER, 689

Carol E. Morgan. Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835–1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England. by NEVILLE KIRK, 691

Sandra J. Peacock. The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822–1904. by JACQUELINE R. DE VRIES, 692

Valerie Langfield. Roger Quilter: His Life and Music. by BYRON ADAMS, 694

Anne Helmreich. The English Garden and National Identity: The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870–1914. by JOHN DIXON HUNT, 695

Peter Cain. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance, 1887–1938. by LANCE E. DAVIS, 697

Nicoletta F. Gullace. “The Blood of Our Sons”: Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War. by MARTIN D. PUGH, 698

Peter Leese. Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War. by J. A. A. BLACK, 699

George Robb. British Culture and the First World War. by ADRIAN GREGORY, 701

Christopher McKee. Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy,
1900–1945. by COLIN F. BAXTER, 702

Angela Jackson. British Women and the Spanish Civil War. by PAMELA M. GRAVES, 703

Christopher Price. Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s: The Cost of
Failure. by MARTIN KITCHEN, 705

Jeremy Noakes, Peter Wende and Jonathan Wright, eds. Britain and Germany in
Europe, 1949–1990. by ANDREW J. CROZIER, 707

Margaret H. B. Sanderson. A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. by DAVID ALLAN, 709

Daniel Szechi. George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1681–1731: A Study in Jacobitism. by STUART HANDLEY, 710

James Hunter. Culloden and the Last Clansman. by DANIEL SZECHI, 711

Roger Turvey. The Welsh Princes: The Native Rulers of Wales, 1063–1283.
by J. J. CRUMP, 713

Martin Johnes. Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900–1939. by P. F. MCDEVITT, 715

H. V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln,and Nigel Rigby, eds. The Worlds of the East
India Company. by DOUGLAS M. PEERS, 716

Jennifer Siegel. Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. by KEITH WILSON, 718

Jeffrey Cox. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India,
1818–1940. by AINSLIE T. EMBREE, 719

Raffi Gregorian. The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947–1954. by DAVID W. CLAYTON, 721

Saki Dockrill. Britain’s Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice between Europe and the World? 1945–1968. by SEAN GREENWOOD, 722

Paul A. Townend, Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. by R. V. COMERFORD, 723