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Jaeger, Muriel
Before Victoria: Changing Standards and Behaviour 1787-1837
Paperback
1967, Penguin
Condition: good
Victorianism was not merely a cult designed to flatter a prudish queen. Muriel Jaeger's highly readable and amusingly ironic narrative shows how the witty, aristocratic tolerance of the eighteenth century was already, before the French Revolution, being assaulted by evangelical high-mindedness. In the wake of Wilberforce and Hannah More, crusading for Sunday observance, popular education, maidenly modesty, and a host of other worthy causes, came the main body of reformers: Brougham, with his Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; Bowdler, who took the guts out of Shakespeare; Joseph Lancaster and Thomas Arnold, headmasters at very different levels. The careers of these and many others prove the author's contention that, during the fifty years before her accession, Victorianism had already prepared the way for Victoria.
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