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George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture.(Book Review)
George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture. Edited by Michael Musgrave. New York: Palgrave, 2003. [xiv, 346 p. ISBN 0-333-94804-1. $82.00] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Having grown up in a home graced with "Spy" cartoons of eminent Victorian barristers, I was delighted to see on the dust jacket of this book the same cartoonist's rendering of George Grove ("G") for an 1891 issue of Vanity Fair. It is a good index of the way in which Michael Musgrave and his colleagues manage to place Grove so richly within the context of time and place. Living from 1820 to 1900, Grove was a virtually exact contemporary of Queen Victoria herself (1819-1901), and indeed, as ...
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