Underneath the Spreading Christmas Tree

Gareth Stedman Jones

  • Private Lives, Public Spirit: A Social History of Britain 1870-1914 by José Harris
    Oxford, 283 pp, £17.95, June 1993, ISBN 0 19 820412 4

In high criticism, Victorianism is generally presented as the artless antonym of modernity. It fades away anywhere between 1901, the year of Victoria’s death, and 1910, the year of the Post-Impressionist Exhibition (the birth of the modern world, according to Roger Fry); or, more obviously, 1914.

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