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The Victorians, A.N. Wilson

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-687) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

The Victorians

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A.N. Wilson

"With his flair for dramatic stories and telling detail, A.N. Wilson singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminated the fervor of an age on the cusp of modernity. Here we meet the lofty and famous - Prince Albert, Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon of Khartoum, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling, and Disraeli. But we also meet the poor and the obscure - doctors ministering to cholera victims in the big cities; young women working as models for famous painters; the man who got the British hooked on cigarettes; the colonizers and colonized in Ireland, India, and Africa."--Jacket

Early Victorian (The little old woman Britannia -- Victoria's inheritance -- The charter -- Typhoon coming on -- The age of Peel -- Famine in Ireland -- The Victorians in Italy -- Doubt -- Mesmerism -- John Stuart Mill's boiled egg -- The failed revolution) -- The eighteen-fifties (The Great Exhibition -- Marx-Ruskin- pre-Raphaelites -- The Crimean War -- India 1857-9 -- Clinging to life) -- The eighteen-sixties ('The Beloved'-Uncle Tom-and Governor Eyre -- The world of school -- Charles Kingsley and 'The water-babies' -- 'Goblin market' and the cause -- WonderlandSome deaths) -- The eighteen-seventies (Gladstone's first premiership -- The side of the angels -- The end of Lord Beaconsfield -- 'The devils'-Wagner-Dostoyevsky-Gilbert and Sullivan -- Country parishes-Kilvert-Barnes-Hardy) -- The eighteen-eighties (A crazy decade -- The plight of the poor -- The rise of Parnell -- The fourth estate-Gordon of Khartoum-The maiden tribute of Babylon -- Politics of the late 1880s -- Into Africa -- Kipling's India -- Jubilee-and the Munshi -- The dock strike -- The scarlet thread of murder -- The fall of Parnell) -- The eighteen-nineties (The Victorian way of deathAppearance and reality -- Utopia : the decline of the aristocracy -- The Boer War -- 'Vale')