Perilous Question
The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
$49.60
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2014
Summary
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser’s new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832.
For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its ‘rotten boroughs’ of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its lines of most resistance to reform. This book is character-driven - on the one hand, the reforming heroes are the Whig aristocrats Lord Grey, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753829226 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753829223 |
| Author: | Lady Antonia Fraser, Antonia Fraser |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 135mm x 22mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Antonia Fraser creates gorgeous portraits of the landed aristocrats, who fought for the Great Reform Bill of 1832. It is a remarkable story told by an excellent storyteller.
Antonia Fraser long ago mastered the art of writing meticulous history so that it reads like an engrossing novel - SUNDAY TIMES
Antonia Fraser’s vivid account is particularly strong on characters - EVENING STANDARDThis is history as it should be written: lively, witty and, above all, a cracking good read. I found it almost impossible to put down - SPECTATORAbout The Author
Lady Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles II, The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 and The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up in 2015. She lives in London.
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