by RupertChristiansen (Author)
An account of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th-century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills. These people succeeded in cracking open the country's insularity, thereby making the Victorian Age far more liberal and dynamic than we commonly believe it to have been.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 18 May 2000
ISBN 10: 1856197859
ISBN 13: 9781856197854