For the second edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. Elizabeth Gaskell's "Our Society at Cranford" has been added, as has Anthony Trollope's "A Ride Across Palestine." Charles Dickens is now represented with two short selections: "The Story of Little Dombey" and "Sikes and Nancy."The selection of poems by D.G. Rossetti has been expanded considerably (the entire 1870 House of Life sequence is included). Other poets, including Michael Field, George Meredith, and Amy Levy now have expanded selections. A small selection of poems by two key figures who also appear in the anthology's twentieth century volume (Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats) are also now included. Several of the Contexts sections in the volume have been expanded-notably "The Place of Women in Society," which now includes material concerning the Contagious Diseases Acts, and "Britain, Empire, and a Wider World," which now includes a section on the Great Exhibition of 1851.