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A diary-style snapshot of late Victorian life, this volume gathers Grant Duff’s notes from 1892 to 1895, offering a window into conversations, travels, and cultural events that shaped the era. The entries blend literary talk, politics, and social life with curiously exact details and keen observations.
The book reads as a private record that still speaks to public matters. You’ll encounter reflections on politics, literature, and the arts, along with vivid scenes from clubs, museums, and formal dinners. It’s a portrait of a busy, intellectually engaged mind navigating a rapidly changing world.
- Follow Duff through dinners at Grillion’s and conversations with figures like Morley, Gladstone, and Lord Ashbourne, plus insights from conversations at the Athenaeum and the Geographical Club.
- See travel and diplomacy notes, including memories of the Tsungli Yamen and cross-cultural observations from the era’s international scene.
- Explore literary and scholarly chatter, from discussions of poets and editors to references to the Metaphysical Society and contemporary lectures.
- Read sharp, personable anecdotes and quotes that illuminate politics, society, and the pace of Victorian life.
Ideal for readers of personal memoirs and mid-to-late 19th-century British history, especially those curious about the conversations and social dynamics of the time.
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Dined with the Literary Society. Sir Douglas Galton, just returned from Florence, whither he had gone to advise about sanitation, said the state of things was not very bad; the drainage was better than that of most Italian, but below that of the better sort of French cities.
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The two volumes, which I now publish, cover a period of four years, from the beginning of 1892 onwards. Seventy-five is not first youth, even in these days of comparative longevity; but I cherish the hope that I may be able, by the publication of two more volumes, to conclude these Notes with the 23rd January 1901, on which the Privy Council took the oaths to our present King. As they began with New Year's Day in 1851, they will then have extended over half a century.
All my earlier books, Studies in European Politics, A Political Survey, Elgin Speeches, etc. - everything indeed which I printed, while I remained in political life, was, whatever else it may have been, as grave as the least frivolous could desire.
In the two volumes to which this forms a preface, I have, as in all their predecessors of the same series, resolutely kept to the less serious side of life, and I purpose doing the same to the end.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book is a collection of diary entries penned by the author from 1892 to 1901. Spanning nine eventful years, they offer an intimate glimpse into the Victorian upper echelons and their political, social, and literary worlds. The author was a Liberal politician, whose circle included Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, and Alfred Tennyson, and his observations provide a unique insider's perspective on late 19th-century British history. From the tumult of the Irish Home Rule crisis to the growing influence of socialism, from the career of Cardinal Manning to the ascent of Theodore Roosevelt, this book paints a vivid portrait of an era poised between tradition and change. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332514366_0
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