# Fifty Years Ago

Author: Besant, Walter, 1836-1901

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59020

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fifty+Years+Ago+Besant&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I propose to set before my readers a picture of the country as it was when Queen Victoria (God save the Queen!) ascended the throne, now fifty years ago and more. It will be a picture of a time so utterly passed away and vanished that a young man can hardly understand it. I, who am no longer, unhappily, quite so young as some, and whose babyhood heard the cannon of the Coronation, can partly understand this time, because in many respects, and especially in the manners of the middle class, customs and habits which went out of fashion in London lingered in the country towns, and formed part of my own early experiences.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/15/index.md)
- [ill. At home, he wrenched off knockers, played practical jokes, drank](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fifty-years-ago-59020/chapters/7/index.md)