‘We would rather eat our cake than merely have it’
Rosemary Hill: Victorian men and women, 4 October 2001
A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
by Judith Flanders.
Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001,0 670 88673 4 Show More
by Judith Flanders.
Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001,
The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939
by Adam Nicolson.
Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001,0 571 20835 5 Show More
by Adam Nicolson.
Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001,
Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women
edited by Heather Creaton.
Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001,1 84000 359 6 Show More
edited by Heather Creaton.
Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001,
“... were not overshadowed by the famous: they lived in the uniform shade of complete obscurity. Heather Creaton has brought together a remarkable collection of journals spanning the period and chronicling the lives of a curate, a Nonconformist headmaster, a stonemason, a nurse, a middle-class ‘young lady’ and so on. It is like being set down in the ... ”
