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This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. The twenty-first-century financial world had its origins in nineteenth-century Britain with industrialism, imperial expansion, and a robust securities market. New developments in limited liability and financial journalism democratized investment, rendering Victorian Britain a nation of shareholders. The City of London and the London Stock Exchange sat at the very centre of international finance, much as the New York Stock Exchange does today.
The history of nineteenth-century finance is also the history of culture and cultural change. Finance cut across all aspects of life in the nineteenth-century. It was central to many social and political issues, including the "woman question" (should women invest their own money?) and Liberal reform (did a laissez-faire economy adequately protect ordinary investors?) The ups and downs of the stock market were also central to the plots of Victorian novels and plays.
This multi-volume collection of primary source materials, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, document the origins, growth, and impact of Britain's financial system.
Contents
Volume I: Public Finance and Company Promotion
Part 1. Finance, Investment, and Joint-Stock Companies
1. Thomas Fortune, Epitome of the Stocks and Public Funds, 9th Edition (London: T. Boosey, 1817), pp. 9-51.
2. Henry Day, A Defense of Joint Stock Companies; Being an Attempt to Shew Their Legality, Expediency, and Public Benefit (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808), pp. 31-42
3. [Anon.], The South Sea Bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to Which It Gave Rise in 1720, Historically Detailed as a Beacon to the Unwary Against Modern Schemes, Equally Visionary and Nefarious (London: Thomas Boys, 1825), pp. 3-7, 133-42.
4. [Sir William Clay], Remarks on Joint Stock Companies by an Old Merchant (London: John Murray, 1825), pp. 43-60.
5. [Alexander Mundell], The Influence of Interest and Prejudice Upon Proceedings in Parliament (London: John Murray, 1825), pp. 11-12, 145-46, 148-55.
6. Abram Combe, The Sphere for Joint-Stock Companies; or, The Way to Increase the Value of Land, Capital, and Labour (Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1825), pp. iii-iv, 3-8.
7. Thomas Love Peacock, 'Chorus of Bubble Buyers', Paper Money Lyrics, Brimley Johnson, ed., The Poems of Thomas Love Peacock (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1906), pp. 308-9.
8. Charles Fenn, A Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, and the Principal Joint Stock Companies, 2nd edition (London: Effingham Wilson, 1838), pp. 98-99, 106-116.
9. Act for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, 1844, 7/8 Vict., Cap. CX.
Part 2. The Railway Mania
10. Henry Tuck, The Railway Shareholder's Manual; or Practical Guide to the Railways of Great Britain (London: Effingham Wilson, 1845), pp. iii-v, 13-14, 16, 37.
11. W.M. Thackeray, 'A Lucky Speculator' and 'Jeames's Diary', Punch 9 (1845), pp. 59, 207-8.
12. [John Sheehan], "The Railway Queen, by the Irish Whiskey Drinker" Bentley's Miscellany 18 (July 1845), pp. 386-91.
13. Henry Wilson, The Railway Panic: Hints to Railroad Speculators, Together with the Influence Railroads Will Have Upon Society (London: Henry Wilson, 1845), pp. 3-7, 11-12.
14. Arthur Smith, The Bubble of the Age; or, The Fallacy of Railway Investment, Railway Accounts, and Railway Dividends (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1848), pp. 3-15.
15. Thomas Carlyle, 'Hudson's Statue', Latter-Day Pamphlets (London: Chapman and Hall, 1850), pp. 307-11, 319-23.
16. Robert Bell, The Ladder of Gold: An English Story (London: G. Routledge and Company, 1858), Book 3, pp. 199-206.
17. Herbert Spencer, 'Railway Morals and Railway Policy', Edinburgh Review 100 (October 1854), pp. 216-26.
Part 3. The Coming of Limited Liability
18. Henry Morley, 'The Penny Saved; A Blue-Book Catechism', Household Words 2 (October 19, 1850), pp. 81-84.
19. Lord Hobart, Remarks on the Law of Partnership Liability (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853), pp. 9-15.
20. William Hawes, Observations on Unlimited and Limited Liability; and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Law of Partnership (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1854), pp. 17-30.
21. U.K. Parliament, House of Commons, Debate on the Law of Partnership, 27 June 1854, Hansard, vol. 134, pp. 754-800.
22. Act for Limiting the Liability of Members of Certain Joint Stock Companies, 1855, 18/19 Victoria, Cap. CXXXIII.
23. David Morier Evans, 'Whither is Limited Liability Leading Us?', Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation, Ideal and Real (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864), pp. 228-36.
Part 4. Company Promotion and Company Promoters
24. Prospectus for Arthur Guinness Son and Company, Limited (1886)
25. Hartley Withers, 'How to Scan a Prospectus', Cornhill Magazine 76 (July 1897), pp. 105-13.
26. [Anon.], 'John Skeeme, the Promoter', All the Year Round 24 (October 5 and 12, 1867), pp. 342-46, 376-81.
27. Laurence Oliphant, 'The Autobiography of a Joint-Stock Company (Limited)', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 120 (July 1876), pp. 96-122.
28. Twycross v. Grant and Others, June 2, 1877, Law Reports, Common Pleas Division, Vol. 2, 1876-1877 (London: William Clowes and Sons), pp. 469-77.
29. Fergus Hume, Madame Midas: Realistic and Sensational Story of Australian Mining Life (London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company,1888), pp. 17-21, 154-55, 165-66.
30. Montagu Williams, 'The Promoter', Round London: Down East and Up West (London: Macmillan and Co., 1892), Part 2, pp. 163-71.
31. Bracebridge Hemyng, "Promoting a Company, or, Shrimps for the Million," The Stockbroker's Wife, and Other Sensational Tales of the Stock Exchange (London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1885), pp. 181-96.
32. W.S. Gilbert, Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress (1893), in W.S. Gilbert, The Savoy Operas (London: Macmillan and Company, 1952), pp. 598, 600-602.
Volume II: The World of the Stock Exchange
Part 1. The Stock Exchange
1. [Anon.], 'A Peep into the Stock Exchange', Metropolitan Magazine 2 (October 1831), pp. 168-74.
2. [Anon.], 'The Stock Exchange', Fraser's Magazine 4 (December 1831), pp. 577-85.
3. Henry May, 'The London Stock Exchange', Fortnightly Review 44 (1885), pp. 566-80.
4. Godefroi Drew Ingall, 'The London Stock Exchange', in George R. Sims, ed., Living London (London: Cassell and Co., 1901), Vol 1, pp. 261-66.
5. H. Norman and G.C. Ashton Johnson, 'The London Stock Exchange', Century Magazine 66 (May-October 1903), pp. 177-94.
6. W.C. Van Antwerp, The Stock Exchange from Within (Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), pp. 332-78.
Part 2. Stockbrokers and Financiers
7. Francis Baily, The Rights of the Stock Brokers Defended Against the Attacks of the City of London (London: W.J. and J. Richardsons, 1806), pp. v, 1, 3-5, 7-9, 12-14, 18-19, 31-32.
8. Francis Chiswell, Key to the Rules of the Stock Exchange (London: Effingham Wilson, 1902), pp. 28-34.
9. [Anon.], 'Sworn Brokers', Truth 4 (12 September 1878), pp. 306-7.
10. Henry Fox Bourne, Famous London Merchants: A Book for Boys (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), pp. 231-48.
11. Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby; or, The New Generation, 3 Vols. (London: Henry Colburn, 1844), Vol. 2, pp. 117-41.
12. Charles Clarke, 'How the Balance Came Out: A Tale of the Stock Exchange', Temple Bar 19 (December 1866), pp. 120-37.
13. Henry Osborne O'Hagan, Leaves from My Life, 2 Vols. (London: John Lane, 1929), Vol. 1, pp. 149-56, Vol. 2, pp. 1-6.
14. Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations (London: Horace Cox, 1895), pp.70-73.
15. Maurice Mortimer, "Fashionable Feminine Financiers," Grand Magazine 5 (July 1907), pp. 875-81.
16. Olive Christian Malvery, The Speculator (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1908), pp. 1-12, 22-29, 40-47.
Part 3. Stock Exchange Business and Customs
17. Rules and Regulations Adopted by the Committee for General Purposes of the Stock Exchange (London: Stephan Couchman, 1812).
18. Rudolph E. Melsheimer and Samuel Gardner, The Law and Customs of the Stock Exchange, 4th Edition (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1905), pp. 9-33.
19. Hartley Withers, 'The Mechanism of the Stock Exchange', Cornhill Magazine 76 (October 1897), pp. 490-99.
20. E.C. Maddison, On the Stock Exchange: An Explanation of Stocks and Stock-Jobbing (London: Charles and Edwin Layton, 1877), pp. 39-49.
21. W. Clauson-Thue, A.B.C. Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code: Specially Adapted for the Use of Financiers, Merchants, Shipowners, Brokers, Agents, Etc. (New York: The American Code Publishing Company, 1899), pp. v-vii.
22. Julian Stern, An Experiment in Respectability (London: Downey and Company, 1895), pp. 141-52.
23. John Francis, Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), pp. 328-37.
24. George Duckworth-Atkin, House Scraps (London: Stock Exchange, 1887), pp. 12-13, 16-17.
25. Julius E. Day, The Stockbroker's Office: Organisation, Management and Accounts (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1911), pp. 100-14.
Part 4. The Stock Exchange and Its Critics
26. Thomas Mortimer, The Nefarious Practice of Stock-Jobbing Unveiled (London: J.M. Richardson, 1810), pp. 35-43.
27. George Augustus Sala, Gaslight and Daylight, with Some London Scenes They Shine Upon (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859), pp. 135-45.
28. Francis Playford, Practical Hints for Investing Money, with An Explanation on the Mode of Transacting Business on the Stock Exchange (London: Virtue Brothers and Co., 1864), pp. 69-73.
29. [Anon.], "The Stock Exchange," St. Paul's Magazine 6 (September 1870), pp. 605-18.
30. W., 'Stockbroking and the Stock Exchange', Fraser's Magazine 94 (July 1876), pp. 84-103.
31. Charles Branch, 'A Defense of the Stock Exchange', Fraser's Magazine 94 (October 1876), pp. 493-503.
32. Royal Commission on the Stock Exchange, Parliamentary Papers, 1878, Vol. XIX, Report, pp. 5-27.
33. [Anon.], 'The Business Morality of the Stock Exchange', The Economist (November 1, 1890), pp. 1379-80.
34. Erasmus Pinto, Ye Outside Fools!: Glimpses Inside the London Stock Exchange (New York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson, and Company, 1877), pp. 41-47.
35. C.J. Scotter, Lost in a Bucket-Shop: A Story of Stock Exchange Speculation (London: Field and Tuer, 1890), pp. 1-43.
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Volume III: Shareholders and the Culture of Investment
Part 1. Shareholders and Their World
1. David Morier Evans, Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864), pp. 141-46.
2. Union Bank of London, Charing Cross Branch, Schedule of Stock and Share Certificates belonging to Mrs. Lewes, 1 May 1879.
3. [W.M. Thackeray], "A Doe in the City," Punch 9 (1 November 1845), p. 191.
4. [Anon.], 'Scenes from the Life of an Unprotected Female', Punch 18 (January 1850), pp. 22-23.
5. [Anon.], 'Dividend Day', All the Year Round (11 November 1893), pp. 462-64.
6. Eastern Counties Railway, Shareholders' Meeting, London Standard (1 March 1849), p. 4.
7. George W. Hemming, 'Railway Shareholders', Saturday Review 1 (1856), pp. 225-26.
8. C.H. Thorpe, How to Invest and How to Speculate (London: Grant Richards, 1901), pp. 65-78.
9. Charlotte Riddell, George Geith of Fen Court, 3 Vols. (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864), Vol. 1, pp. 43-55.
10. Bracebridge Hemyng, 'Time and Tide Wait for No Man: A Tale of the Tape', The Stockbroker's Wife and Other Sensational Tales of the Stock Exchange (London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1885), pp. 159-72.
11. Alexander Innes Shand, 'Speculative Investments', Blackwood's Magazine 120 (September 1876), pp. 293-316.
Part 2. Advice Books for Investors
12. Thomas Mortimer, Every Man His Own Broker; or, A Guide to the Stock-Exchange, 12th edition (London: W.J. and J. Richardson, 1798), pp. v-xxii.
13. [George G. Carey], A New Guide to the Public Funds; or, Every Man His Own Stock-Broker (London: D.B. Woodward, 1835), pp. 80-90.
14. Gresham Omnium, A Handy Guide to Safe Investments (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860), pp. 50-69.
15. Arthur Crump, The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874), pp. 41-60.
16. George Gregory, Hints to Speculators and Investors in Stocks and Shares (London: George Gregory & Co., 1891), pp. 13-21.
17. A.J. Wilson, Practical Hints to Investors and Some Words to Speculators (London: Clement Wilson, 1897), pp. 9-27.
18. [Emma Sophia Galton], Guide to the Unprotected in Everyday Matters Relating to Property and Income by a Banker's Daughter (London: Macmillan and Co., 1863), pp. 9-15.
19. Caroline Haddon, Where Does Your Interest Come From?: A Word to Lady Investors (London: John Heywood, 1886)
Part 3. Financial Journalism and the Money Article
20. George Goschen, 'Seven Per Cent', Edinburgh Review 121 (January 1865), pp. 114-29.
21. Walter Bagehot, 'What to Buy—I: A Series of Popular Articles on Investment', Economist 24 (15 December 1866), pp. 1449-51.
22. Amy Bell, 'How Women May Invest Their Money', Englishwoman's Review (April 1892), pp. 85-87, and (July 1892), pp. 159-61.
23. Olive Malvery, 'Women and the Money Market', The Ladies' Realm 21 (November 1906), pp. 41-5.
24. [Anon.], 'The Sham Financial Press', The Statist (9 April 1887), pp. 389-90.
25. Charles Duguid, How to Read the Money Article (London: Effingham Wilson, 1901), pp. 99-106.
Part 4. Institutional Shareholders and Trusts
26. Samuel Brown, 'On the Investment of the Funds of Assurance Companies', Assurance Magazine 7 (April 1858), pp. 241-54.
27. Board of Trade, Statements of Accounts and Life Assurance and Annuity Business, 1902 (London: HMSO, 1904), p. 2.
28. Augustine Birrell, The Duties and Liabilities of Trustees (London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), pp. 125-39.
29. C.H. Thorpe, How to Invest and How to Speculate (London: Grant Richards, 1901), pp. 104-14.
Part 5. Investors and Imperialism
30. 'The Dangers of Lending to Semi-Civilised Countries', Economist 25 (23 November 1867), pp. 1321-22.
31. George Baden-Powell, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 18 (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887), pp. 253-75.
32. [Anon.], The East India Government Guarantee on Railways (London: William H. Allen and Co., 1861), pp. 4-12.
33. Dadabhai Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1901), pp. 33-34, 54-55.
34. Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897), pp. 13-37.
35. John A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1902), pp. 56-63.
Index
Volume IV: Financial Crises and Financial Fraud
Part 1. Financial Manias and Panics
1. David Morier Evans, The History of the Commercial Crisis, 1857-58 (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1859), pp. 1-12, 148-57.
2. Walter Bagehot, 'What is a Panic and How It Might be Mitigated', Economist 24 (12 May 1866), pp. 554-55.
3. [Anon.], 'The Panic in the City', Saturday Review 21 (12 May 1866), pp. 547-48.
4. Robert H. Patterson, 'The Panic in the City', Blackwood's Magazine 100 (July 1866), pp. 78-93.
5. Alexander Innes Shand, Against Time (Boston: Littell and Gay, 1870), pp. 149-53.
6. George Bartrick Baker, 'The Crisis of the Stock Exchange', Contemporary Review 58 (November 1890), pp. 680-92.
Part 2. Financial Frauds
7. John Francis, Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange (London: Willoughby and Co., 1849), pp. 187-90.
8. David Morier Evans, Facts, Failures, and Frauds (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1859), pp. 226-37, 391-413.
9. John Hollingshead, 'Convict Capitals', and 'Very Singular Things in the City', All the Year Round (9 June and 14 July 1860), pp. 201-4, 325-26.
10. 'The Truth about the Liberator', Pall Mall Gazette (27 October 1892), p. 5, 'The Liberator Relief Fund', Pall Mall Gazette (21 June 1893), p. 3, and 'Liberator Relief Fund', Pall Mall Gazette (23 February 1895), p. 3.
11. 'Mr. Hooley's Bankruptcy', 'The Hooley Failure', and 'Results of the Hooley System of Finance', Economist 56 (11 June, 30 July, 20 August 1898), pp. 869, 1113-14, 1213.
12. William R. Lawson, 'Company Promoting à la Mode', National Review 32 (September 1898), pp. 103-15.
13. S.F. Van Oss, 'Whitaker Wright Finance', Blackwood's Magazine 175 (March 1904), pp. 397-409.
14. Henry Osborne O'Hagan, Leaves from My Life, 2 Vols. (London: John Lane, 1929), Vol. 1, pp. 141-48, Vol. 2, pp. 186-88, 409-18.
15. 'American Woman is Accused of Forgery', New York Times (3 September 1901), p. 3.
Part 3. Criticism and Calls for Reform
16. Herbert Spencer, Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1868), Excerpt, pp. 127-33.
17. Humphrey Lyttleton, Sins of Trade and Business (London: W. Ibister and Co., 1874).
18. Alfred Emden, 'The Crying Need for Reforms in Our Company Law', Nineteenth Century 35 (June 1894), pp. 1033-50.
19. Hugh E.M. Stutfield, 'The Company-Monger's Elysium', National Review 26 (February 1896), pp. 836-48.
20. Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Companies Bill, Minutes of Evidence, Parliamentary Papers (1898), Vol. 9, pp. 7-25.
21. Companies Act, 1900, 63/64 Vict., Cap. 48.
22. Herbert Spencer, 'The Reform of Company Law', Facts and Comments (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), pp. 234-44.
Part 4. Literary Representations of Financial Fraud
23. Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844), pp. 321-37.
24. George Henry Lewes, The Game of Speculation (1851) in Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Vol. 5 (London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1852), pp. 104-24.
25. Mrs. Henry Wood, Oswald Cray (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1864), pp. 279-89.
26. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, 4 Vols. (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875), Vol. 1, pp. 97-107.
27. Headon Hill, Guilty Gold (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1896), pp. 13-24.
28. Harold Frederic, The Market-Place (London: William Heinemann, 1899), pp. 26-38.
29. Guy Thorne and Leo Custance, Sharks (Toronto: William Briggs, 1904), pp. 147-58.
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