As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show

By E.F. Benson

Book Overview

A very interesting curiosity: Benson, writing in 1930, reminiscing about the Victorian era, writers, artists, scandals of the day. Veers between extremely sharp insight and self-indulgence, as you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701205881
• ISBN13: 9780701205881
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Unparalled memoirs of Victorian and Edwardian England

The author of Mapp and Lucia roves back to the days of pincushions and paperweights, of Floral Lotto and soulful renditions of "The Lost Chord". He starts with a picture of Queen Victoria and then unfolds the oddities of his own family and their social circle. Gladstone packs a sponge bag, Tennyson talks of braces, Whistler challenges Moore to a duel, and so on. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was one of six eccentric children of the Archbishop of Canterbury and wrote almost 100 books. The book includes an introduction by T.J. Binyon.