Victorian worthies
Subtitle: sixteen biographies
By: by G. H. Blore.
Publisher: H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Written primarily for boys at school", as a supplement to the study of civics. cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Victorian era.; title: Thomas Carlyle, prophet.; title: Sir Robert Peel, statesman.; title: Sir Charles Napier, soldier.; title: The Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist.; title: Lord Lawrence, administrator.; title: John Bright, tribune.; title: Charles Dickens, novelist and social reformer.; title: Lord Tennyson, poet.; title: Charles Kingsley, parish priest.; title: George Frederick Watts, artist.; title: Bishop Patteson, missionary.; title: Sir Robert Morier, diplomatist.; title: Lord Lister, surgeon.; title: William Morris, craftsman.; title: John Richard Green, historian.; title: Cecil Rhodes, colonist.; title: Index.