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The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age - Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 (Hardcover)
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The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age - Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 (Hardcover)
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What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular
scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading
authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical
year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe,
the threat of mass insurrection at home and radical developments in
railway transport, communications, religion, literature and the
arts. The effects of the new poor law now became visible in the
workhouses; a potato blight started in Ireland, heralding the Great
Famine; and the Church of England was rocked to its foundations by
John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism. What Victorian
England became was moulded, says Michael Wheeler, in the crucible
of 1845. Exploring pivotal correspondence, together with pamphlets,
articles and cartoons, the author tells the riveting story of a
seismic epoch through the lives, loves and letters of leading
contemporaneous figures.
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