Victorian worthies : sixteen biographies /
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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London :
H. Milford. Oxford university press,
1920.
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | "Written primarily for boys at school", as a supplement to the study of civics. cf. Pref. Contents: --Introduction: The Victorian era.--Thomas Carlyle, prophet.--Sir Robert Peel, statesman.--Sir Charles Napier, soldier.--The Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist.--Lord Lawrence, administrator.--John Bright, tribune.--Charles Dickens, novelist and social reformer.--Lord Tennyson, poet.--Charles Kingsley, parish priest.--George Frederick Watts, artist.--Bishop Patteson, missionary.--Sir Robert Morier, diplomatist.--Lord Lister, surgeon.--William Morris, craftsman.--John Richard Green. |
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| Descripció física: | viii, 376 p : 16 port. (incl. front.) |