Portrait of an Age by G M Young
'Who are these Victorians? By what mark are we to know them? What creed, what doctrine, what institution was there among them which was not at some time or other debated or assailed? I can think of only two: Representative Institutions and the Family.' G.M. Young took as his subject the condition of England and the growth of the Victorian mind from 1837 to 1901. It is a remarkable survey, written with penetrating scholarship in a style and language which owes much to Gibbon for its clarity and wit, and to Macaulay for the assembled movement and march of its narrative. 'It is still, I think, the greatest single study of the age in any language...His footnotes are not unworthy of one of his masters, Gibbon.' OBSERVER First published in 1936.-
Eagle in the Snow
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Our Island Story
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Desiree
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Blenheim
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The Ottoman Empire
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Salisbury: Victorian Titan
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The Age of Illusion
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The Age Of Arthur
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Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade
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The Man on a Donkey
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Mussolini
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Mary Tudor
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The Road to Mayerling
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The Fields Beneath
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Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
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Cecil Beaton
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Roman Warfare
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The Lady For Ransom
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Sex In Georgian England
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Duel of Eagles
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Around the World in Eighty Treasures
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Elizabeth and Leicester
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Winter Quarters
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Robert, Earl of Essex
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Daily Life of the Etruscans
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Family Favourites
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Three's Company
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They Were Defeated
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The Duchess of Dino
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Garibaldi and the Thousand
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History of the Conquest of Peru
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The Princes in the Tower
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The Queen's Necklace
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Ancient Lives
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Celsius 7/7
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Fields of Fire
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At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot
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The Civilization of Ancient Crete
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Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
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Anthony Trollope
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Ascendancy to Oblivion
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Empire
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Lord Geoffrey's Fancy
G.M. Young was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 'I was born when the Queen had still nearly nineteen years to reign; I saw her twice, Gladstone once; I well remember the death of Newman and Tennyson, and my earliest recollection of the Abbey brings back the flowers fresh on Browning's grave.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842125984 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842125982 |
| Title | Portrait of an Age |
| Author | G M Young |
| Series | Phoenix Press Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2002-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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