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Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her
early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the
neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of
nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival
resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical,
and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury
and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health for
all. Ashton explores the secular impetus behind these reforms and
the humanitarian and egalitarian character of nineteenth-century
Bloomsbury. Thackeray and Dickens jostle with less famous
characters like Henry Brougham and Mary Ward. Embracing the high
life of the squares, the nonconformity of churches, the parades of
shops, schools, hospitals and poor homes, this is a major
contribution to the history of nineteenth-century London.
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