‘We would rather eat our cake than merely have it’
Rosemary Hill: Victorian men and women, 4 October 2001
A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
by Judith Flanders.
Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001,0 670 88673 4 Show More
by Judith Flanders.
Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001,
The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939
by Adam Nicolson.
Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001,0 571 20835 5 Show More
by Adam Nicolson.
Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001,
Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women
edited by Heather Creaton.
Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001,1 84000 359 6 Show More
edited by Heather Creaton.
Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001,
“... and I do not like to see him sepia-ed up and made a monkey of. The biographer’s obligations, Galen Strawson once remarked, are both ‘heavy and delicate’. Great men will always find champions to rewrite their lives, the smaller the subject the more care is ... ”
