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The Times Great Victorian Lives
Edited by Ian Brunskill
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Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale. For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of the great and the good. Scientists, social reformers, composers, writers, sportsmen and politicians!Times Great Victorian Lives examines the achievements of eminent Victorians, from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to Charles Darwin, Disraeli to Gladstone and Florence Nightingale to Sarah Bernhardt. Figures have been chosen according to their importance today and are ordered chronologically. The Times Great Victorian Lives gives a fascinating insight into Victorian history, revealing how the Victorian figures we now consider 'great' were seen in their day.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 3 Sep 2007
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 640
Dimensions | 240 x 159 x 52mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 970g
ISBN | 978-0-0072-5973-1
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BISAC | history / europe / great britain
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