Lexington Books
Pages: 390
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-7936-1715-6 • Hardback • June 2020 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-1-7936-1716-3 • eBook • July 2020 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
David Taylor obtained his PhD at the University of Roehampton London.
Part I: Stephen
Chapter 1: “The L’s are a good race”
Chapter 2: Formative Years
Chapter 3: The “Mourning Bride”
Chapter 4: The Grieving Widower
Chapter 5: A Social Conscience
Part II: Vernon
Chapter 6: A Child of Reform
Chapter 7: “My Tropic Season”
Chapter 8: A Disciple of Maurice
Chapter 9: A Hearer of Carlyle
Chapter 10: Comte: “A light in a dark world”
Chapter 11: Art For Art’s Sake?
Chapter 12: Pre-Raphaelite Portraits
Chapter 13: Portrait of a Marriage
Chapter 14: “My Life for Others”
Chapter 15: A Legacy
Part III: Kitty
Chapter 16: A Charmed Childhood
Chapter 17: The Home Quartette.
Chapter 18: Towards the Lighthouse: A Broken Engagement
Chapter 19: The Lighthouse and Beyond: Marriage
Chapter 20: Mrs Dalloway
Part IV: Epilogue
Chapter 21: The Last of the Lushingtons
As important members of the circles around Byron and the Romantics in the early nineteenth century, Pre-Raphaelite writers and artists in the Victorian period, and Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury world in the modernist age, several generations of the Lushington family played central roles in the story of British literature and culture. David Taylor charts this lost history and illuminates it with wit, scholarly intelligence, and a dedicated researcher’s passion.
— Margaret D. Stetz, University of Delaware
Without any need for fame, the Lushingtons knew and influenced an astonishing number of public figures and events throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. This is a fascinating book about a family with their fingers in every pie.
— Julian Fellowes
At the core of this fascinating study are the riches of the Lushington archives. David Taylor has not only used this resource to the fullest, but has also followed the threads outwards into the life of the nation. He paints a vivid and engaging picture of a cultivated, well-connected, and affluent professional family of individuals who took full and creative part in all that they encountered.
— Gillian Sutherland, Newnham College