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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


We write in an age and in a country in which the ...

We write in an age and in a country in which the highest position would not have availed to screen the moat elevated delinquent.

They are simply the record of a truth perfectly understood and recognized by the English people.

From The Times, 16 December 1866: For men

who took their reading seriously, the standard was high and the classical impression lasting.

Except Brougham, who was educated at Edinburgh, it is not easy to recall any

public man of eminence who

could have talked science with Prince Albert; but

many of them were competent scholars, several were

excellent scholars, and the imprint of a thorough, if narrow, classical education is visible in Hansard whenever the speaker is Peel or Lord John Russell, Gladstone or Derby.

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Practically, it was not a matter of much consequence, as dissenters were ...

Practically, it was not a matter of much consequence, as dissenters were not, as a rule, of the class who Oxford and Cambridge served, and a new