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  • ISBN-13: 9780007363742
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Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale.



For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of the great and the good. Scientists, social reformers, composers, writers, sportsmen and politiciansTimes Great Victorian Lives examines the achievements of eminent Victorians, from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to Charles Darwin, Disraeli to Gladstone and Florence Nightingale to Sarah Bernhardt.



Figures have been chosen according to their importance today and are ordered chronologically. The Times Great Victorian Lives gives a fascinating insight into Victorian history, revealing how the Victorian figures we now consider 'great' were seen in their day.

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Praise for The Times Great Victorian Lives:



A brilliant concept, irresistible to anyone interested in those amazing Victorians. Like re-reading history through a many-faceted prism So many gems Liza Picard, author of Victorian London



Praise for The Times Great Lives:



a glorious celebration of human diversity, genius and sheer eccentricityGreat Lives is a great book Daily Express



an engrossing volume, full of lively writing The Times Literary Supplement

Introduction xi
Ian Brunskill
Introduction xiv
Professor Andrew Sanders
Thomas Arnold
1(1)
Felix Mendelssohn
2(2)
George Stephenson
4(1)
William Wordsworth
5(4)
Sir Robert Peel
9(15)
J. M. W. Turner, R. A.
24(4)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
28(6)
Robert Stephenson
34(5)
William Makepeace Thackeray
39(3)
Nicholas, Cardinal Wiseman
42(4)
Abraham Lincoln
46(5)
Lord Palmerston
51(25)
Michael Faraday
76(4)
Charles Dickens
80(5)
General Robert E. Lee
85(3)
Charles Babbage, F. R. S.
88(5)
Emperor Napoleon III
93(29)
William Charles Macready
122(3)
David Livingstone
125(12)
John Stuart Mill
137(4)
Sir Edwin Landseer
141(6)
Harriet Martineau
147(6)
Sir Titus Salt
153(3)
William Henry Fox Talbot
156(4)
Pope Pius IX
160(19)
George Gilbert Scott
179(2)
John Thadeus Delane
181(9)
George Eliot
190(5)
Thomas Carlyle
195(19)
Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield
214(23)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
237(3)
Charles Darwin
240(10)
Anthony Trollope
250(4)
Richard Wagner
254(11)
Karl Marx
265(1)
Victor Hugo
266(19)
Sir Moses Montefiore
285(7)
Franz Liszt
292(7)
Matthew Arnold
299(9)
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan
308(3)
Wilkie Collins
311(4)
Robert Browning
315(4)
John Henry Newman
319(19)
Charles Bradlaugh
338(4)
Charles Stewart Parnell
342(13)
Thomas Cook
355(3)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
358(17)
Louis (Lajos) Kossuth
375(13)
Robert Louis Stevenson
388(8)
Christina Rossetti
396(3)
T. H. Huxley
399(10)
Friedrich Engels
409(1)
Louis Pasteur
410(6)
Lord Leighton
416(8)
Clara Schumann
424(2)
Sir John Everett Millais
426(8)
William Morris
434(5)
Johannes Brahms
439(3)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
442(3)
William Ewart Gladstone
445(42)
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
487(3)
Otto von Bismarck
490(39)
Helen Faucit
529(5)
Henry Tate
534(3)
John Ruskin
537(3)
Sir Arthur Sullivan
540(6)
Oscar Wilde
546(2)
Dr Barnardo
548(4)
Sir Henry Irving
552(6)
Josephine Butler
558(4)
Lord Kelvin
562(11)
Florence Nightingale
573(13)
Count Leo Tolstoy
586(8)
W. S. Gilbert
594(6)
Octavia Hill
600(4)
W. G. Grace
604(4)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
608(4)
Sarah Bernhardt
612(7)
Index 619


Educated at the universities of Oxford and Hamburg, Ian Brunskill joined The Times in 1991. He succeeded the political commentator Anthony Howard as Obituaries Editor in February 1999, and took on the additional duties of Letters Editor in 2005; he is currently assistant editor. He is editor of The Times Great Lives (2005), The Times Great Victorian Lives (2007) and The Times Guide to the House of Commons (2015).
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