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There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountered. The politicians, generals and commercial classes have been well covered in popular history books, but there were also thinkers of radical and unsettling ideas who had a real influence at the time. Many were women, many from the middle and working classes, and almost all outside the power structure. They were by no means all fringe ideas either - in 1840, Queen Victoria herself attended a s ance, for example. The book is a biography focussed history of some of these challenging ideas and the men and women who promoted them. It looks at radical thinkers and movers, the people who stepped outside of the social norm and propelled the Victorians towards the modern day.

Radical Victorians: The Women and Men who Dared to Think Differently

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There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems... Read more

    Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 11/05/2022
    ISBN13: 9781399008266, 978-1399008266
    ISBN10: 1399008269

    Number of Pages: 232

    Non Fiction , History

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    There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountered. The politicians, generals and commercial classes have been well covered in popular history books, but there were also thinkers of radical and unsettling ideas who had a real influence at the time. Many were women, many from the middle and working classes, and almost all outside the power structure. They were by no means all fringe ideas either - in 1840, Queen Victoria herself attended a s ance, for example. The book is a biography focussed history of some of these challenging ideas and the men and women who promoted them. It looks at radical thinkers and movers, the people who stepped outside of the social norm and propelled the Victorians towards the modern day.

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