Victorian Miniature
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521422515
ISBN13:9780521422512
Release Date:June 1991
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Good Read for those interested in Victorian England
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book was required reading for my History 302 class this term, and yet it still managed to be an interesting read, something that is shocking for college material. It tells the story of a parson and squire in 19th century England who alone would be totally uniteresting in the grand scheme of history, but together they engaged in a battle that was well documented in their diaries, and which gives a good example of the way life was in Victorian England.All in all, this was a very good read and a must for any English history buff.
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