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Subversive Performances, Masculine Pleasures
4. M. Marsh, Suburban Lives (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990);
A. Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars
(London; Virago, 1991); D. Ryan, The Ideal Home through the Twentieth Century (London:
Hazar, 1997).
5. C.F.G. Masterman, The Condition of England (London: Methuen, 1909), p. 68.
6. Ibid., pp. 69–70.
7. Ibid., p. 80.
8. G. le Bon, Psychology of the Crowd (1895), quoted in M. Boscagli, Eye on the Flesh:
Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford: Westview, 1996), p. 70.
9. The Modern Man (December 5, 1908), p. 8.
10. The Modern Man (January 1910).
11. Masterman, Condition of England, pp. 93–4.
12. M. Marsh, “Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity 1870–1915,” in M.C. Carnes
and C. Griffen (eds), Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian
America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 111–12.
13. The Times (September 30, 1930).
14. K. Howard, The Smiths of Valley View (London: Cassell, 1909), foreword.
15. Marsh, Suburban Men, p. 127.
16. A.J. Lewis, “Our Treasures: A Story of Bachelor Housekeeping,” in J. Strangewinter
(ed.), Wanted, A Wife: A Story of the 60th Dragoons etc. (London: J. Hogg, 1887), pp. 104–6.
17. W. Pett Ridge, Outside the Radius: Stories of a London Suburb (London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1899), pp. 8–16.
18. W. Pett Ridge, Sixty Nine Birnam Road (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908),
pp. 266–7.
19. Ibid., p. 299.
20. D. Birley, Land of Sport and Glory: Sport and British Society 1887–1910 (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1995).
21. Pett Ridge, Sixty Nine, p. 119.
22. Ibid., p. 77
23. F. Willis, 101 Jubilee Road: A Book of London Yesterdays (London: Phoenix House,
1948), p. 127.
24. Ibid., p. 130.
25. W. MacQueen Pope, Twenty Shillings in the Pound (London: Hutchinson, 1948),
pp. 182–3.
26. K Howard, The Smiths of Surbiton: A Comedy Without a Plot (London: Chapman
and Hall, 1906), pp. 234–5.
27. A. Paterson, Across the Bridges (London: Edward Arnold, 1911), pp. 38–9.
28. Ibid., p. 44.
29. P.J. Keating, The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 140.
30. Ibid., p. 141.
31. P. Bailey, “Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday: Comic Art in the 1880s,” History Workshop
Journal 16 (1983), pp. 4–31.
32. Ibid., p. 20.
33. Ibid., p. 10.
34. R. Whiteing, No 5 John Street (London: Grant Richards, 1899), pp. 60–1.
35. G.W. Sims, “Off the Track in London: Around Hackney Wick,” Strand Magazine
(September 1904), p. 41.
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