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Tom Crewe: Balfour and the Souls, 31 March 2016
Balfour’s World: Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle
by Nancy Ellenberger.
Boydell, 414 pp., £30, September 2015,978 1 78327 037 8 Show More
by Nancy Ellenberger.
Boydell, 414 pp., £30, September 2015,
“... other’s arms.’ The latest attempt to invest the Souls with seriousness is Balfour’s World, Nancy Ellenberger’s interesting, interestingly flawed study, which makes a case for them as the originators of a new ‘emotional regime’. But were they really as serious as that? No one expressed the essential mood of the Souls better than Margot ... ”
