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Synopsis
This book is part history and part an account of the daily life of a large aristocratic family with homes in Roxburghshire in Scotland, and in fashionable Eaton Square in London. The story is told principally by the Earl and Countess of Minto, their five sons - a diplomat, MP, soldier, sailor and lawyer - along with the daughters' governess. The action takes place in Britain and across the world, in such places as Brazil and Uruguay, Morocco, China, Cape Province, Russia, Corfu, the Crimea, Bulgaria, Prussia, Italy, Sicily and the Vatican. It includes colourful descriptions of crises and revolutions as well as the consequences of the fortunate marriage made by one of the Elliot daughters to a future British prime minister.It treads a careful path between being a piece of historical scholarship and the inside story of the family's life, managing to combine the style and content of letters and diaries from a variety of sources. It is the first biography of the Minto family in the reign of Queen Victoria and one in which both sexes have a part to play. Intricately choreographed, The Victorian Elliots is not formulaic and its readers will enjoy the description it gives of the long Victorian afternoon.
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About the Author
Born in Beckenham in 1931, John Evans was educated at Dulwich College and Bristol University. In addition to a degree in Economics and Business Administration, he gained a post-graduate diploma in Social Studies. Towards the end of a twenty-year career in senior management with BICC/Balfour Beatty, he was seconded to the National Economic Development Office working on the development of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's 'Industrial Strategy'. Since taking early retirement in 1992, he and his wife have lived in the Scottish Highlands where he has been increasingly immobile, without losing his enthusiasm for social history.
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- PublisherAmberley Publishing
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1445605074
- ISBN 13 9781445605074
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages352
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THE VICTORIAN ELLIOTS IN PEACE AND WAR: Lord and Lady Minto, Their Family and Household between 1816 and 1901
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THE VICTORIAN ELLIOTS IN PEACE AND WAR: Lord and Lady Minto, Their Family and Household between 1816 and 1901
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