142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London - Softcover

Ashton, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712606963 ISBN 13: 9780712606967

Verlag: Vintage, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray; Americans like Emerson and refugees from revolutionary Europe like Mazzini. In 1851 Chapman brought Marian Evans - the future George Eliot - to London where her arrival caused rows in the household, which included Chapman's wife and also his mistress.

The Strand was packed with booksellers, magazine publishers, theatres, clubs, and quack doctors. Only a short distance away were Westminster, the Houses of Parliament and the disreputable pornographers of Holywell street. Chapman's circle touched all these worlds, and the vivid story of these unconventional lives and unorthodox views - marvellously told by Rosemary Ashton - takes us to the heart of Victorian culture, uncovering its surprising energy, its doubts and arguments, and, above all, its passionate reforming spirit.

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Rosemary Ashton is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London. She is the author of acclaimed critical biographies of Coleridge, George Henry Lewes and George Eliot and Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0712606963
• ISBN 13: 9780712606967
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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