Victoria's Heyday

A rich and beautifully illustrated panorama of that most Victorian of decades - the eighteen-fifties. These were the years of Victoria's greatest happiness with her beloved Albert, of the Great Exhibition and the flowering of literary activity led by Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Tennyson and many others ; the huge paradoxes of industrial expansion, middle-class consolidation and extreme poverty ; of sexual repression, 'My Secret Life...' and a London which shocked even Dostoyevsky. Mr... Voir plus