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As we were : a Victorian peep-show / E.F. Benson ; new introduction by T.J. Binyon.
- Title
- As we were : a Victorian peep-show / E.F. Benson ; new introduction by T.J. Binyon.
- Author
- Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940
- Publication
- London : Hogarth, 1985.
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Details
- Description
- 355 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- In this anecdotal book, Benson affords his sly observations on the great and the not-so-good. Prince Albert, Blume Jones, Queen Victoria and Edward VII, as well as Gladstone, Gosse, the Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Swinburne, Whistler and Wilde are all subjects of his wit.
- Series Statement
- Lives & letters
- Uniform Title
- Hogarth lives and letters
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: London : Longman, Green, 1930.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The pincushion -- Early Victorians -- Family history -- Lincoln and Truro -- Two sisters -- Three monumental figures -- Cambridge -- Athens -- Three great ladies and others -- Two scandals -- Rebels -- More Victorians -- The movement of the nineties.
- ISBN
- 0701205881 (pbk) :
- LCCN
- gb^85027568^
- OCLC
- 12506630
- SCSB-12096489
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library