Research Catalog

Title

The precariously privileged : a professional family in Victorian London / Zuzanna Shonfield.

Author

Shonfield, Zuzanna.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Details

Description

ix, 266, [20] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Publisher description: For twenty-three years, Jeanette Marshall, daughter of an eminent anatomist, recorded her impressions of the drawing room society of late Victorian London, which included such intellectual and artistic luminaries as Rosseti, Ford Madox Brown, and Burn Jones's mistress, Mary Zambaco. In constant pursuit of a husband, craftily steering a course between strong-mindedness and frivolity, she applied her brisk realism and caustic manner to paint a vivid and often unexpected picture of Victorian daily life. Drawing on these previously untapped diaries, Zuzanna Shonfield reconstructs the life of the Marshall family and charts the trials and fortunes, both comic and poignant, which befell these precariously privileged newcomers to London society.

Subject

• Marshall family
• Geschichte 1870-1892
• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1870-1892
• Middle class > London > History > 19th century
• Physicians > London > History > 19th century
• Middle class families > London > History > 19th century
• Physicians > History > London > 19th century
• Life Style > history
• Physicians > history
• London (England) > Biography
• London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0192122657

LCCN

^^^86012801^

OCLC

• 13794706
• SCSB-13293450

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library