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As We Were: a Victorian peep-show
As We Were a Victorian peepshow
Author: E. F. Benson
In As We Were, E.F. Benson's eye roves back to those nostalgic days of pincushions and paperweights, of 'Floral Lotto' and soulful renditions of The Lost Chord. — Starting from the top - with a trenchant picture of Queen Victoria - he unfolds the extreme oddities of his own family and of the people he encountered in their vast and dizzying social...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780701205881
ISBN-10: 0701205881
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 355
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Publisher: London, Hogarth Press, 1985
Book Type: Paperback
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thameslink avatar reviewed As We Were: a Victorian peep-show on + 723 more book reviews
Another romp from the author of the "Lucia" books -- this time through Victorian days. "Writers and artists share the stage with famous beauties and doughty dowagers in these unparalleled memoirs of late Victorian and early Edwardian England."
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E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is one of the great English humorists. Novelist, essayist, and biographer, he published almost eighty books, including fifty works of fiction. He is perhaps most famous for the Lucia series... [publisher]


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