Victorian Bloomsbury

by Rosemary Ashton

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030015447X
• ISBN13: 9780300154474
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"