Into the Gulf
Rosemary Hill, 17 December 1992
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
by Alethea Hayter.
Robin Clark, 224 pp., £6.95, June 1992,0 86072 146 9 Show More
by Alethea Hayter.
Robin Clark, 224 pp., £6.95, June 1992,
Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art 1700-1850
edited by John Barrell.
Oxford, 301 pp., £35, June 1992,9780198173922 Show More
edited by John Barrell.
Oxford, 301 pp., £35, June 1992,
London: World City 1800-1840
edited by Celina Fox.
Yale, 624 pp., £45, September 1992,0 300 05284 7 Show More
edited by Celina Fox.
Yale, 624 pp., £45, September 1992,
“... in 1833 and, equally important in its way, ‘Elizabethan’ in 1817. The period which began, as Celina Fox says in her introduction, with King and mistresses ended with Queen and family. Moral, social and artistic distinctions hardened, but at the turn of the century the divisions between fine and applied art, art and science, and science, magic and ... ”