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The Last Victorians: A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (en Inglés)
William Sydney Robinson
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The Last Victorians: A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (en Inglés) - Robinson, William Sydney
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Reseña del libro "The Last Victorians: A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics (en Inglés)"
We of this age behold with amazement the sweep and range of the great Victorians.' Morning Post, May 1921 Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the long-reigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds or worse. Yet not everyone in the twentieth century agreed with Strachey and his followers. To a handful of eccentrics born during Victoria's reign, the nineteenth century remained the greatest era in human history: a time of high culture for the wealthy, improvement for the poor, and enlightened imperial rule for the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire. They were, to friend and foe alike, 'the last Victorians' relics of a bygone civilisation. In this daring group biography, W. Sydney Robinson explores the extraordinary lives of four of these Victorian survivors: the Puritan Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932); the Gloomy Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral, W. R. Inge (1860-1954); the belligerent founder of the BBC, John Reith (1889-1971), and the ultra-patriotic popular historian and journalist Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). While revealing their manifold foibles and eccentricities, Robinson argues that these figures were truly great even in error.
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