Victorian Miniature Paperback / softback
by Owen (University of Cambridge) Chadwick
Part of the Canto original series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities.
The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/05/1991
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- ISBN:9780521422512
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/05/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521422512
