Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village. Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities. The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.
| ISBN: | 9780521422512 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 1991 |
| Author: | Owen University of Cambridge Chadwick |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Canto original series |
| Genres: |
European history |