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Book Chapter
Winter
2011
Overview
Late 1894 was unseasonably warm, with raspberries picked in Essex the week before Christmas. The high temperatures prompted thunderstorms, with the south-west seeing its heaviest rain since 1882. On 14 November, George Gissing noted the ‘Newspapers are full of floods and wrecks’ (Gissing 1978: 353), and a deluge in the Thames Valley meant ‘Eton was flooded out, and the school had to be broken up’ (Hamilton 1986: 190). Oscar Wilde received an intimation of changes in the moral climate a few days earlier. The first night of Haddon Chambers’sJohn O’Dreams, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780748640560, 0748640568
