Volume 1 — Introductory material
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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—PART ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND INTRODUCTION TO VOLS. I AND II—By the Editor
I—LONDON
A GENERAL SKETCH—By Goldwin Smith WESTMINSTER ABBEY—By Washington Irving THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—By Nathaniel Hawthorne ST. PAUL'S—By Augustus J.C. Hare THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE—By H.A. Taine THE TEMPLE'S GALLERY OF GHOSTS PROM DICKENS—By J.R.G. Hassard THE TEMPLE CHURCH—By Augustus J.C. Hare LAMBETH CHURCH AND PALACE—By Augustus J.C. Hare DICKENS'S LIMEHOUSE HOLE—By J.E.G. Hassard WHITEHALL—By Augustus J. C. Hare THE TOWER—By W. Hepworth Dixon ST. JAMES'S PALACE—By Augustus J. C. Hare LITERARY SHRINES OF LONDON—By William Winter
II—CATHEDRALS AND ABBEYS
CANTERBURY—By the Editor OLD YORK—By William Winter YORK AND LINCOLN COMPARED—By Edward A. Freeman DURHAM—By Nathaniel Hawthorne ELY—By James M. Hoppin SALISBURY—By Nathaniel Hawthorne EXETER—By Anna Bowman Dodd LICHFIELD—By Nathaniel Hawthorne WINCHESTER—By William Howitt WELLS—By James M, Hoppin BURY ST. EDMUNDS—By H. Claiborne Dixon GLASTONBURY—By H. Claiborne Dixon TINTERN—By H. Claiborne Dixon
III—CASTLES AND STATELY HOMES
LIVING IN GREAT HOUSES—By Richard Grant White WINDSOR—By Harriet Beecher Stowe BLENHEIM—By the Duke of Marlborough WARWICK—By Harriet Beecher Stowe KENILWORTH—By Sir Walter Scott ALNWICK—By William Howitt HAMPTON COURT—By William Howitt CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALL—By Elihu Burritt EATON HALL—By Nathaniel Hawthorne HOLLAND HOUSE—By William Howitt ARUNDEL—By Anna Bowman Dodd PENSHURST—By William Howitt
IV—ENGLISH LITERARY SHRINES
STRATFORD-ON-AVON—By Washington Irving NEWSTEAD ABBEY—By Nathaniel Hawthorne HUCKNALL-TORKARD CHURCH (Byron's Grave)—By William Winter DR. JOHNSON'S BIRTHPLACE—By Nathaniel Hawthorne
(English Literary Shrines continued in Vol. II)