Portraits of the sixties.
Publisher: Unwin
Published: 1903
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Roebuck, John Arthur; Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.; Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885.; Webster,; Smith, Goldwin; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.; Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russel, 1792-1878; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.; Bancroft, Squire, 1841-1926.; Robson, Frederick; Newman, Francis William; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.; Paget Lord Clarence; Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.; Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.; Peter II, Emperor of Brazil, 1825-1891; Cobden, Richard; Keeley, Robert; Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of; Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.; Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890.; Peabody, George.; Bright, John; England -- Biography; England -- History -- 1820-1897 -- Victorian; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Table of contents: title: The early sixties; Charles Dickens; W.M. Thackeray; Thomas Carlyle.  Alfred Tennyson; Richard Owen.  The Brothers Newman; Richard Cobden; John Bright; Sir Stafford Northcote; A parliamentary group; Another parliamentary group; From commons to Lords; "Crownless Sovereignties"; Sir Richard and Lady Burton; Two philanthropists; Ruskin and the pre-raphaelites; John Arthur Roebuck; Italy's English sympathisers; Stars that rose in in sixties; Lord Clarence Paget.  Thorold Rogers; Goldwin Smith; The Keeleys, Robson, and Webster; The Bancrofts; Three queens of song; Three stage graces; Some queens of society; Last words.