John Pemble
is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where he taught modern history for twenty years. He has published a wide range of books, articles and reviews dealing with the British in India, nineteenth-century travel, the modern apotheosis of Venice, and the French experience of Shakespeare. In 1987 he was the joint winner of the Wolfson Prize for
The Mediterranean Passion
no reissued in
Faber Finds.
'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869.
In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure,...
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