Dimensions
159 x 240 x 51mm
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 politicians...Times Great Victorian Lives examines the achievements of 100 eminent Victorians, from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to WH Smith.
Figures have been chosen according to their importance today and are ordered chronologically. 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, including the lives of many women such as Christina Rossetti and Josephine Butler.
