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Victorian worthies: sixteen biographies
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- Creator
- by G. H. Blore
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- English
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- London ; New York : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920
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- viii, 376 pages : 16 portrait (including frontispiece) ; 19 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02289604
- "Written primarily for boys at school", as a supplement to the study of civics. cf. Pref.
- Introduction: The Victorian era.--Thomas Carlyle, prophet.--Sir Robert Peel, statesman.--Sir Charles Napier, soldier.--The Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist.--Lord Lawrence, administrator.--John Bright, tribune.--Charles Dickens, novelist and social reformer.--Lord Tennyson, poet.--Charles Kingsley, parish priest.--George Frederick Watts, artist.--Bishop Patteson, missionary.--Sir Robert Morier, diplomatist.--Lord Lister, surgeon.--William Morris, craftsman.--John Richard Green, historian.--Cecil Rhodes, colonist.--Index