Mr Horniman's Walrus (eBook)

Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family

CLARE PATERSON (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
272 Seiten
Michael O'Mara (Verlag)
978-1-78929-401-9 (ISBN)

Infos

<p><b>‘This has everything I love in a book; drama, intrigue and a giant, stuffed mammal. Sue Perkins</b><br><b><i><br>Mr Hornimans Walrus</i> tells the story of the rise and fall of three generations of a remarkable and dysfunctional Victorian family the Hornimans exploring the lives and loves behind their extraordinary and varied legacies.</b><br><br>Family patriarch <b>John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name</b> in 1826, which went on to become one of the best-known brands of nineteenth-century Britain. His son <b>Frederick created the eclectic and wonderful Horniman Museum</b> in London, and his granddaughter <b>Annie was a theatrical impresario</b> responsible for founding Irelands national theatre, the Abbey. Across more than a century, the family embodied changing middle-class attitudes <b>from patriarchy to the new spirit of modernity</b>; and their progress mirrored the high point of Victorian entrepreneurialism and the changes ushered in by the Edwardian age. <br><br>Drawing on her years of research and unfettered access to the family archive, Clare Paterson has written<b> a riveting tale</b> of trade, collecting, the stage, sex and politics in Victorian Britain. For the first time, <i>Mr Hornimans Walrus</i> unpicks the lives of this fascinating family, <b>including their slips from grace as well as their astounding achievements</b>. Its a story of capital and culture, philanthropy and empire, but also bankruptcy, betrayal, intrigue, lunacy and deep involvement in the esoterica of the occult.</p>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-78929-401-0 / 1789294010
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78929-401-9 / 9781789294019