Eminent Edwardians - Hardcover

BRENDON , PIERS

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039529195X ISBN 13: 9780395291955

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1980

Synopsis

First published in 1992, a collection of four biographical essays on eminent Victorians, focusing on Prime Minister Balfour, suffragette Mrs. Pankhurst, Baden-Powell, and Lord Northcliffe.

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Review:

"Dr Piers Brendon is a courageous and independent man, and this book is notable not only for its own merits, which are considerable, but as a sign of liberation for future biographical writers. The message is this. Biographies have been getting longer, and can, without loss, with positive gain, become shorter- The book leaves one with two hopes. One, that Brendon will write more like it, two, that other biographers will start examining his model.'" (C. P. Snow)

"Supremely readable and entertaining." (Robert Blake)

"Piers Brendon's brilliant pen portraits of four famous figures of the Edwardian age- Here in sharp focus is all you ever wanted to know about them. Hilarious and sometimes not a little alarming.'" (Robert Morley, Evening News)

From the Publisher:

A dazzling study of four figures who flourished in - and defined - the early years of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 039529195X
• ISBN 13: 9780395291955
• Binding: Hardcover