Victorian Values

<p>With its many attractive illustrations<i>Victorian Values</i> is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture presenting different aspects of the age through profiles (originally published in <i>History Today</i>) of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens Samuel Smiles Pugin Mary Kingsley Lord Leighton and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity.</p>