Victorian Miniature, Paperback / softback Book

Victorian Miniature Paperback / softback

Part of the Canto original series series

Paperback / softback

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Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'.

Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village.

Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities.

The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.

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