The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller: Martin Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy": Martin Tuer's 'proverbial Philosophy'

by Brian Thompson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2002

  $3.25

  A friend of both the Marxes and the Gladstones, a lovable but preposterous figure, with a quiverful of children and advice to anyone who would listen, Martin Tupper was in many ways the quintessential Victorian. In 1842 he wrote the first of a series entitled Proverbial Philosophy , a moral self-improvement manual, full of hearty evangelism - somewhere between The Road Less Travelled and The Little Book of Calm - which became a multi-million bestseller. Few people today have heard of Tupper but in his own time his name was a household word. Know Tupper, know something interesting, richly comic and telling about Victorian taste and sensibility.