Invader
Linda Colley, 9 July 1987
Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider
by Wendy Hinde.
Yale, 379 pp., £14.95, April 1987,0 300 03880 1 Show More
by Wendy Hinde.
Yale, 379 pp., £14.95, April 1987,
Richard Cobden: Independent Radical
by Nicholas Edsall.
Harvard, 479 pp., £23.95, February 1987,0 674 76879 5 Show More
by Nicholas Edsall.
Harvard, 479 pp., £23.95, February 1987,
“... scholarly and readable. Wendy Hinde’s study is the more accessible and better-written, while Nicholas Edsall writes more incisively and with a wider understanding of Cobden’s political and social context. But both suffer from the problem that hampered their predecessors. It is easy as well as correct for a biographer to make Cobden seem an ... ”
