Temples of Luxury: Volume I: Hotels

ISBN-13: 9780367425876 / Angielski

Susanne Schmid

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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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Temples of Luxury

Volume I: Hotels

Acknowledgements

Introduction – volume I

1. Nerot’s Hotel

1.1 [Advertisement], St. James’s Chronicle or the British Evening Post (7-10 October 1775), p. 1.

1.2 ‘Lord Nelson’, Whitehall Evening Post (8-11 November 1800), p. 2.

1.3 ‘Nerot’s Hotel and Bath’, Daily Advertiser, Oracle, and True Briton (26 January 1805), p. 1.

1.4 Richard Bligh, ‘Burnand vs. Nerot’, in New Reports of Cases Read in the House of Lords, vol. 2 (London: Saunders and Benning, 1830), pp. 215-38 (excerpt: pp. 215-25).

2. Grillion’s Hotel

2.1 ‘Grillon’s’, The Epicure’s Almanack; or, Calendar of Good Living (London: Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1815), pp. 195-6.

2.2 Frances Burney, [A Visit to Grillion’s in 1814], Diaries and Letters of Madame D’Arblay (1778-1840), ed. Charlotte Bannett, with notes by Austin Dobson, vol. 6 (London: Macmillan, 1905), pp. 103-19 (excerpt: pp. 104-6, 107-9, 113-5).

2.3 P. G. E., Grillion’s Club from Its Origin in 1812 to Its Fiftieth Anniversary (London: privately printed, 1880), pp. 5-8, 11-2.

3. ‘Riot at Birmingham’, St. James’s Chronicle or the British Evening Post (14-6 July 1791), p. 4.

4. Pierce Egan, Walks Through Bath: Describing Every Thing Worthy of Interest, ... Including Walcot and Widcombe, and the Surrounding Vicinity, ... Also an Excursion to Clifton and Bristol Hot-well (Bath: Meyler and Son, 1819), pp. 34-5, 68.

5. Rees Howell Gronow, Reminiscences of Captain Gronow ... Being Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court and the Clubs, at the Close of the Last War with France (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862), pp. 73-5.

6. Arrivals

6.1 ‘Arrivals in London’, World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons 2:8 (1 January 1825), pp. 1-2.

6.2 ‘Fashionable Arrivals’, Morning Post (18 April 1833), p. 3.

7. Licensing Hotels

7.1 ‘Hotel Licenses’, Morning Post (7 August 1828), p. 2.

7.2 ‘Licensing Hotels’, Morning Post (11 August 1828), p. 2.

8. Celebrating the Opening of a New Hotel

8.1 ‘Birkenhead New Hotel’, Liverpool Mercury (30 June 1820), p. 438.

8.2 ‘St. Leonard’s’, Courier (24 October 1829), p. 2.

8.3 ‘Hastings, 30 Oct.’, Sussex Advertiser (2 November 1829), p. 3.

9. New Guide to the Royal Leamington Spa, the Neighbouring Towns, and Surrounding Country (Royal Leamington Spa/London: Reeve/Longman and Co., Whittaker and Co., and Bagster and Sons, 1839), pp. 80-4.

10. A. B. Granville, The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Northern Spas (London: Colburn, 1841), pp. 61-4, 70-4.

11. Brighton

11.1 A. B. Granville, The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Southern Spas (London: Colburn, 1841), pp. 560-7 (excerpts).

11.2 ‘The Grand Hotel at Brighton’, London Reader 3:76 (22 October 1864), p. 752.

12. ‘Temperance Coffee-Houses’, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 564 (19 November 1842), pp. 351-2.

13. Throne Crick, Sketches from the Diary of a Commercial Traveller (London: Joseph Masters, 1847), pp. 183-7, 194-8, 219-24.

14. ‘English and Foreign Hotels’, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 192 (4 September 1847), pp. 153-5.

15. ‘Mivart’s Hotel: House of Call for Ex-Emperors, Ex-Kings, and Ex-Royalty in General’, Punch 14:348 (1848), p. 97.

16. ‘Chester and Holyhead Line’, North Wales Chronicle (27 June 1848), p. 4.

17. The 1853 Hotel Charges Debate in The Times

17.1 A Young Man, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, Times (3 September 1853), p. 7.

17.2 A Victim, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, Times (9 September 1853), p. 10.

17.3 An American Traveller, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, Times (10 September 1853), p. 8.

17.4 A Commercial Traveller, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, Times (12 September 1853), p. 8.

17.5 An Hotelkeeper, ‘To the Editor of The Times’, Times (14 September 1853), p. 5.

17.6 Justus, ‘The Hotel-Keepers and "The Times"’, Daily News (4 October 1853), p. 4.

18. Charles Dickens, ‘Out of Town’, Household Words 12 (29 September 1855), pp. 193-6 (excerpt: pp. 194-5).

19. Albert Smith, The English Hotel Nuisance (London: Bryce, 1855), pp. 5-19.

20. George Augustus Sala and the Great Hotel Question

20.1 [George Augustus Sala], ‘The Great Hotel Question’, Household Words 13 (1856), pp. 97-103 (16 February); pp. 141-4 (23 February); pp. 148-154 (1 March) (excerpt: pp. 141-2).

20.2 [George Augustus Sala], ‘English Hotels’, Household Words 13 (1856), pp. 172-8 (8 March) (excerpt: pp. 172-5).

21. ‘The Grosvenor Hotel’, Builder 18:929 (24 November 1860), p. 755.

22. Thomas Cook, ‘Expenses in Scotland’, in Cook’s Scottish Tourist Official Directory (London: Tweedie, 1861), pp. 24-6.

23. Handbook for Travellers in North Wales (London: Murray, 1861), pp. xxvi-xxvii, 38, 104-6.

24. ‘The Modern Gigantic Hotel System’, The Era (1 November 1863), p. 6.

25. ‘Mammoth Hotels’, Temple Bar 9 (November 1863), pp. 198-208 (except: pp. 200-8).

26. The Langham Hotel

26.1 ‘The Langham Hotel’, Times (12 June 1865), p. 9.

26.2 ‘The Kitchen of the Langham Hotel’, London Reader 5:114 (15 July 1865), p. 329.

26.3 Celia Logan Kellogg, ‘Ouida’, Packard’s Monthly 3 (January 1870), pp. 22-5 (excerpts).

26.4 ‘Our Monthly Gossip’, Lippincott’s Magazine 6: 32 (1 August 1870), pp. 219-28 (excerpt: pp. 225-6).

27. ‘Opening Dinner of the Salisbury Hotel’, British Farmer’s Magazine, new series 49 (1865), pp. 135-8 (excerpts).

28. ‘Some Big Hotels’, Chambers’s Journal 101 (2 December 1865), pp. 759-61.

29. ‘Hotel Management’, Saturday Review (10 February 1866), pp. 169-70.

30. Edmund Yates, ‘Letters to Joseph, No. II - On the Wing. Part I’, Temple Bar (November 1866), pp. 414-23 (excerpt: pp. 422-3).

31. Clunyhill Hydropathic Establishment

31.1 J. & W., Watson, Morayshire Described (Elgin: Russell & Watson, 1868), pp. 277-8.

31.2 ‘Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Forres’, Forres, Elgin, and Nairn Gazette (29 June 1870), p. 2.

32. The Taxing of Hotel Waiters

32.1 ‘The Taxing of Hotel Waiters’, Morning Advertiser (30 March 1871), p. 3.

32.2 ‘Taxation of Hotel Waiters’, Clerkenwell News (15 April 1871), p. 4.

33. F. A., ‘English Hotel Life’. London Society 22: 129 (1872), pp. 256-61.

34. Henry Lake, ‘The Midland Railway and Its Hotels’, Belgravia 7 (October 1875), pp. 513-23 (excerpt: pp. 516-23).

35. Hotel Keepers and Their Guests

35.1 ‘Important Action Against a Brighton Hotel Keeper’, Brighton Guardian (21 February 1877), p. 7.

35.2 ‘The Liabilities of Innkeepers. – (Spice v. Bacon)’, Brighton Guardian (27 June 1877), p. 8.

35.3 ‘Hotel Keepers and Their Guests’, The Field, The Country: Gentleman’s Newspaper 89 (30 January 1897), p. 156.

36. Handbook to London as it Is: New Edition Revised (London: Murray, 1879), pp. 48-51.

37. Peter Turner Winskill, The Comprehensive History of the Rise and Progress of the Temperance Reformation. ([Sold by Winskill], 1881), p. 252.

38. Swimming at Ilfracombe

38.1 ‘Swimming Entertainment at the Ilfracombe Hotel Baths’, North Devon Journal (13 July 1882), p. 8.

38.2 ‘Professor Parker’s Benefit’, Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette (29 September 1887), p. 4.

38.3 ‘Ilfracombe Hotel Baths’, North Devon Journal (13 August 1891), p. 2.

39. ‘Catering Experience of an English Manager’, in Jessup Whitehead, The Steward’s Handbook (1889), 6th edn (Chicago: Jessup Whitehead & Co., 1903), pp. 131-5.

40. American hotels for women

40.1 ‘Hotel Me, Gentle Stranger!’, Punch 101 (3 October 1891), p. 159.

40.2 ‘Wanted – a Woman’s Hotel. An American Suggestion for Londoners’, Review of Reviews (April 1898), p. 365.

41. William Bell, ‘The New Station Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne’, British Architect (10 November 1893), pp. 326-8.

42. Working Conditions

42.1 C. H. d’E. Leppington, ‘Work and Wages in Hotels and Restaurants’, Good Words 33 (January 1892), pp. 754-8.

42.2 Miss [Eliza] Orme, Report on the Conditions of Work of Barmaids, Waitresses, and Book-Keepers Employed in Hotels, Restaurants, Public-Houses and Other Places of Refreshment. in Royal Commission on Labour: The Employment of Women (London: Printed for her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1893), pp. 195-229 (excerpt: pp. 199-200).

43. George Augustus Sala, ‘Nine p.m.: After Dinner at the Hotel Brobdingnag’, London up to Date (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp. 137-47.

44. W[illiam] Hamilton Beattie, ‘Hotel Designing’, British Architect 43 (1 March 1895), p. 147.

45. The Arrest of Oscar Wilde

45.1 ‘Arrest of Oscar Wilde’, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper (14 April 1895), p. 15.

45.2 Charles Grolleau, The Shame of Oscar Wilde: From the Shorthand Reports (Paris: privately printed, 1906), pp. 15-8, 30-5, 42-3.

46. Dining Out in London

46.1 [Nathaniel] Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis, Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London (London: Grant Richards, 1899), pp. 73-9, 266-71.

46.2 Auguste Escoffier, A Guide to Modern Cookery (London: Heinemann, 1907), pp. 218-9, 557-9, 621-2, 778, 807-8.

47. The Poor Man’s Hotel

47.1 ‘In the Poor Man’s Hotel, London’, Chambers’s Journal 2:69 (25 March 1899), pp. 257-61.

47.2 ‘A "Poor Man’s Hotel" for Liverpool’, British Architect (2 March 1900), pp. 159-60.

48. Behind the Scenes of a Large Hotel

48.1 Arnold Bennett, The Grand Babylon Hotel: A Fantasia on Modern Themes (1902) (London: Chatto & Windus, 1904), pp. 130-45.

48.2 ‘The Day’s Work: III. – A Great London Hotel’, The World’s Work: An Illustrated Magazine of National Efficiency and Social Progress 1:4 (March 1903), pp. 387-94.

49. Walter T. Stephenson, ‘Hotels and Hotel Life in New York’, Pall Mall Magazine (31 October 1903), pp. 250-60.

50. H. G. Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (London: Macmillan, 1905), pp. 302-14.

51. ‘How Hotel Swindlers Work’, London Journal 8:196 (22 January 1910), p. 310.

Index

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