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Victorian Worthies Malcolm Johnson

Victorian Worthies By Malcolm Johnson

Victorian Worthies by Malcolm Johnson


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Victorian Worthies Summary

Victorian Worthies: Vanity Fair's Leaders of Church and State by Malcolm Johnson

Victorian Worthies collects the very best caricatures of the leading church figures of Victorian Britain from the pages of the original Vanity Fair magazine. The brilliant colour cartoons by Ape and Spy and accompanying vignette by Jehu Junior (editor Thomas Gibson Bowles) are here reproduced, with a brief modern-day biography by priest Malcolm Johnson. Includes portraits of William Gladstone, Samuel Wilberforce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin, Anthony Trollope, John Henry Newman, Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria, William Spooner, Robert Baden-Powell, Winston Churchill, Edward VII, Cosmo Lang and G K Chesterton.

Victorian Worthies Reviews

'A delightful tour of the eccentric, Anglican world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.' -- Ian Hislop
'Malcolm Johnson has skilfully recovered these caricaturists from the magazine rack of history.' -- Revd Richard Coles
'Victorian Worthies came when I needed a day away from the laptop, and I devoured it in the garden at a sitting.' -- Diarmaid MacCulloch * Prof. of History of the Church *

About Malcolm Johnson

Malcolm Johnson is a retired Church of England priest, previously rector of St Botolph Aldgate, Master of the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine and chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London.

Additional information

GOR006275135
9780232531107
0232531102
Victorian Worthies: Vanity Fair's Leaders of Church and State by Malcolm Johnson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
2014-08-21
128
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