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“... which take (male) words at face value, and her counsels of prudence are amply borne out by Jeanne Peterson’s ‘thick description’ of the lives of three generations of Victorian women, the Pagets and their circle. Samuel Paget was a shipper and brewer from Great Yarmouth; his wife, Betsey, bore 17 children, among whom James became a top ...”

“... Acton is unstoppable. The most knowledgeable historian of the Mid-Victorian medical profession, Jeanne Peterson, has called him ‘perhaps the cleverest quack of his generation’. With New Historicists like Professor Laqueur around, she was wasting her breath. The real shame is that Laqueur, again, is not doing justice to his own capacities as a ...”