The American writer and newspaper journalist Fanny Fern's description of the hotel as a
“miniature world” of service praises the sheer splendor and variety of the urban hotel on the …

This thesis concerns serialised fiction stories sold for a penny or less in England in the
period between 1837 and 1850, also known as penny bloods. Penny bloods (sometimes …

This chapter sketches a brief history of inns and hotels in the long nineteenth century and
traces representations both of the nostalgically evoked inn and of the more modern hotel …

This chapter argues that when both the physical practice and the literary recreation of leisure
travel were being reinvented, the brief evocations of bad inns and failed domesticity helped …

Favored as a site for suspense and surprise, the country inn was a frequent and prominent
setting in British plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Inns possessed …

Favored as a site for suspense and surprise, the country inn was a frequent and prominent
setting in British plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Inns possessed …