Victorian Miniature
$43.18
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 May 1991
Summary
Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been ‘between the Manor and the Vicarage’. Owen Chadwick’s Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village. Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521422512 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521422515 |
| Author: | Owen Chadwick |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 1991 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Canto original series |
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‘It reads like a novel, and it is in fact a small masterpiece.’ John Clive, The Times Literary Supplement ‘Better than any fiction.’ The Times ‘Chadwick tells their story with grace and great charm, for he is as fully a master of writing as of history, and there can be hardly anybody who would not rejoice over the reading of such a book as this, which is quite fascinating from its first page to its last.’ The Guardian
About The Author
Owen Chadwick
Owen Chadwick was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge from 1968 to 1983. He has written many books, including “The Reformation,” “The Victorian Church,” “The Popes and European Revolution,” as a result of which he was awarded the Wolfson Prize for history, and “Michael Ramsey,”
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