Victorian Vocations
Frank Kermode, 6 December 1984
Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a Positivist
by Martha Vogeler.
Oxford, 493 pp., £27.50, September 1984,0 19 824733 8 Show More
by Martha Vogeler.
Oxford, 493 pp., £27.50, September 1984,
Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian
by Noël Annan.
Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £16.50, September 1984,0 297 78369 6 Show More
by Noël Annan.
Weidenfeld, 432 pp., £16.50, September 1984,
“... coaching the boat, being a don. His real work lay elsewhere. So, indeed, did Harrison’s. Ms Vogeler’s biography is the first, and it is hard to imagine a reason for its not being the last. It is full of detail and documentation and it is very well written. Whereas Annan’s Stephen is at once censorious and intimate, very much at ease with a figure ... ”