Country Life
David Cannadine, 5 November 1981
The Victorian Countryside
edited by G.E. Mingay.
Routledge, 380 pp., £25, July 1981,0 7100 0734 5 Show More
edited by G.E. Mingay.
Routledge, 380 pp., £25, July 1981,
“... In 1972, Routledge and Kegan Paul published The Victorian City: Images and Realities, edited by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, a Wagnerian epic in which history went to town in exuberant, zestful and flamboyant fashion. Understandably, the two volumes won immediate and widespread acclaim as a tour de force of entrepreneurial inspiration and editorial skill: ‘a study in superlatives’ was the response of one ecstatic reviewer ... ”
