Victorian Miniature

Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village. Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities. The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.

Author: Owen Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/05/1991
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521422512

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