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Book Description
142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional publisher John Chapman, and all the avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered there. Rosemary Ashton’s vivid biography takes us to the heart of that culture.
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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A greedy, randy idealist
Rosemary Ashton has rather cornered the market in dissecting the lives of the intellectual movers and shakers of early Victorian England. She has already written well about the Carlyles, and about George Eliot and her lover G. H. Lewes. Now, all thes ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Book Details
- English Books
- Hardcover 320 Pages
- ISBN-10: 070117370X
- ISBN-13: 9780701173708
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- Pub date: Nov 28, 2006
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Others and eBook
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780701173708 | Hardcover | $20.00 | $31.52 | The Book Depository |
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Inside George Eliot's house of ill-repute
142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London by Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus £20, pp386 For eight years during the 1850s, 142 Strand was a hotbed of peculiarly Victorian literary and philosophical subversion. Four doors down from Somerset Hou ... (read full critics)