Asked to add a volume to the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the editor and critic Clement Shorter surveys the reign’s writing. Poets, novelists, historians and thinkers, from Tennyson and the Brontës to Carlyle and Ruskin, are weighed in brisk, personal chapters by a man who knew much of the literary world firsthand.
A useful contemporary view of the Victorian canon as it looked at the end of the century. Download the free EPUB.