Temples of Luxury (eBook, PDF)

Volume I: Hotels
Redaktion: Schmid, Susanne

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines hotels, inns, restaurants, and travelling on luxurious trains and ships. The volume also explores social rituals, consumer culture, and issues of class and gender as well as the institutions of travelling for health, education, or any other purpose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000927214
• Artikelnr.: 69451420

Autorenporträt

Dr Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME I HOTELS



List of Figures xi



Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

1 Nerot's Hotel 9



1.1 [Advertisement] (1775) 11



1.2 'Lord Nelson' (1800) 12



1.3 'Nerot's Hotel and Bath' (1805) 13



1.4 'Burnand vs. Nerot' (1830) 14

RICHARD BLIGH

2 Grillion's Hotel 21



2.1 'Grillon's' (1815) 23



2.2 A Visit to Grillion's in 1814 (1905) 24

FRANCES BURNEY



2.3 Grillion's Club From Its Origin in 1812 to



Its Fiftieth Anniversary (1880) 28

P. G. E.

3 'Riot at Birmingham' (1791) 31

4 Walks Through Bath (1819) 35

PIERCE EGAN

5 Reminiscences of Captain Gronow (1862) 39

REES HOWELL GRONOW

6 Arrivals 43



6.1 'Arrivals in London' (1825) 45



6.2 'Fashionable Arrivals' (1833) 48

7 Licensing Hotels 51



7.1 'Hotel Licenses' (1828) 53



7.2 'Licensing Hotels' (1828) 56

8 Celebrating the Opening of a New Hotel 59



8.1 'Birkenhead New Hotel' (1820) 61



8.2 'St. Leonard's' (1829) 62



8.3 'Hastings, Oct. 30' (1829) 63

9 New Guide to the Royal Leamington Spa, the Neighbouring



Towns, and Surrounding Country (1839) 65

10 The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places:



Northern Spas (1841) 71

A . B . G R A N V I L L E

11 Brighton 79



11.1 The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places:



Southern Spas (1841) 81

A . B . G R A N V I L L E



11.2 'The Grand Hotel at Brighton' (1864) 85

12 'Temperance Coffee-Houses' (1842) 89

13 Sketches from the Diary of a Commercial Traveller (1847) 93

THRONE CRICK

14 'English and Foreign Hotels' (1847) 101

15 'Mivart's Hotel: House of Call for Ex-Emperors, Ex-Kings,

and Ex-Royalty in General' (1848) 109

16 'Chester and Holyhead Line' (1848) 113

17 The 1853 Hotel Charges Debate in The Times 117



17.1 'English Hotels. To the Editor of The Times' (1853) 119

A YOUNG MAN



17.2 'Hotel Charges. To the Editor of The Times' (1853) 121

A V I C T I M



17.3 'Hotel Charges. To the Editor of The Times' (1853) 123

A N A M E R I C A N T R AV E L L E R



17.4 'To the Editor of The Times' (1853) 125

A C O M M E R C I A L T R AV E L L E R



17.5 'To the Editor of The Times' (1853) 126

AN HOTELKEEPER



17.6 'The Hotel-Keepers and the "Times". To the Editor of the

Daily News' (1853) 128

JUSTUS

18 'Out of Town' (1855) 131

CHARLES DICKENS

19 The English Hotel Nuisance (1855) 137

ALBERT SMITH

20 George Augustus Sala and the Great Hotel Question 149



20.1 'The Great Hotel Question' (1856) 151

[GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA]



20.2 'English Hotels' (1856) 155

[GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA]

21 'The Grosvenor Hotel' (1860) 161

22 'Expenses in Scotland' (1861) 167

THOMAS COOK

23 Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (1861) 173

24 'The Modern Gigantic Hotel System. (Written Expressly

for "The Era")' (1863) 179

25 'Mammoth Hotels' (1863) 185

26 The Langham Hotel 197



26.1 'The Langham Hotel' (1865) 199



26.2 'The Kitchen of the Langham Hotel' (1865) 202



26.3 'Ouida' (1870) 204

CELIA LOGAN KELLOGG



26.4 'Our Monthly Gossip' (1870) 205

27 'Opening Dinner of the Salisbury Hotel' (1865) 207

28 'Some Big Hotels' (1865) 215

29 'Hotel Management' (1866) 223

30 'Letters to Joseph, No. II - On the Wing. Part I' (1866) 229

EDMUND YATES

31 Clunyhill Hydropathic Establishment 233



31.1 Morayshire Described (1868) 235

J. & W. WATSON



31.2 'Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Forres' (1870) 237

32 The Taxing of Hotel Waiters 243



32.1 'The Taxing of Hotel Waiters' (1871) 245



32.2 'Taxation of Hotel Waiters' (1871) 247

33 'English Hotel Life' (1872) 249

F. A.

34 'The Midland Railway and Its Hotels' (1875) 259

HENRY LAKE

35 Hotel Keepers and Their Guests 269



35.1 'Important Action Against a Brighton Hotel Keeper'

(1877) 271



35.2 'The Liabilities of Innkeepers. - "Spice v. Bacon"'

(1877) 275



35.3 'Hotel Keepers and Their Guests' (1897) 277

36 Handbook to London as It Is: New Edition Revised (1879) 279

37 The Comprehensive History of the Rise and Progress of the



Temperance Reformation (1881) 285

PETER TURNER WINSKILL

38 Swimming at Ilfracombe 289



38.1 'Swimming Entertainment at the Ilfracombe Hotel Baths'

(1882) 291



38.2 'Ilfracombe Baths Aquatic Fete. Professor Parker's Benefit'

(1887) 293



38.3 'Ilfracombe Hotel Baths' (1891) 294

39 'Catering Experience of an English Manager' (1889) 295

40 American Hotels for Women 303



40.1 '"Hotel Me, Gentle Stranger!"' (1891) 305



40.2 'Wanted - a Woman's Hotel. An American Suggestion

for Londoners' (1898) 307

41 'The New Station Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne' (1893) 311

WILLIAM BELL

42 Working Conditions 319



42.1 'Work and Wages in Hotels and Restaurants' (1892) 321

C. H. D'E. LEPPINGTON



42.2 Report on the Conditions of Work of Barmaids, Waitresses,

and Book-Keepers Employed in Hotels, Restaurants,



Public-Houses and Other Places of Refreshment (1893) 328

MISS [ELIZA] ORME

43 'Nine p.m.: After Dinner at the Hotel Brobdingnag' (1894) 331

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA

44 'Hotel Designing' (1895) 339

W[ILLIAM] HAMILTON BEATTIE

45 The Arrest of Oscar Wilde 345



45.1 'Arrest of Oscar Wilde' (1895) 347



45.2 The Shame of Oscar Wilde: From the Shorthand Reports (1906) 352

CHARLES GROLLEAU

46 Dining Out in London 357



46.1 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 S



46.2 A Guide to Modern Cookery (1907) 366

AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER

47 The Poor Man's Hotel 371



47.1 'In the Poor Man's Hotel, London' (1899) 373



47.2 'A "Poor Man's Hotel" for Liverpool' (1900) 381

48 Behind the Scenes of a Large Hotel 383



48.1 The Grand Babylon Hotel: A Fantasia on Modern



Themes (1902) 385

ARNOLD BENNETT



48.2 'The Day's Work III. -A Great London Hotel' (1903) 392

49 'Hotels and Hotel Life in New York' (1903) 401

WALTER T. STEPHENSON

50 Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905) 413

H. G. WELLS

51 'How Hotel Swindlers Work' (1910) 423



Index 427