Victoriana.(The Victorians; The Crimson Petal and the White; The Trail of the Serpent )(Book Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-MAY-03

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Better known for his prodigious output as a biographer--his subjects have included Tolstoy, Jesus, and C. S. Lewis--A. N. Wilson has returned to social history. The Victorians (W. W. Norton), Wilson's chronicle of nineteenth-century Britain, looks at everything from the era's religious crises (the decline of Christian conviction) to...

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