Full name: Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

Author: Asa Briggs Year: 1954 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780226074887 0226074889

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century. "For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."--Times Literary Supplement Similar books: The Victorians by A. N. Wilson How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Victorian Things by Asa Briggs Consuming Passions by Judith Flanders Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney Victorian London by Liza Picard The Worm in the Bud by Ronald Pearsall The Making of Victorian Values by Ben Wilson The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Governess by Ruth Brandon The Great Stink of London by Stephen Halliday Victoria's Wars by Saul David Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer