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contents february 2 0 2 4 • i s s u e 5 2 6 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classif ed Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell T e Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, T e Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. T e latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | february 2024 2 diary 1 Kathr yn Hughes victorians 6 Norma Clarke Hardy Women: Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Muses Paula Byrne 7 Rosemary Ashton Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain Judith Flanders the state we’re in 9 Richard V Reeves Equality: T e History of an Elusive Idea Darrin M McMahon 11 Jonathan Wolf In the Long Run: T e Future as a Political Idea Jonathan White 12 Justin Mundy Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Hannah Ritchie history 14 Michael Taylor T e Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition 1776–1888 Robin Blackburn • Survivors: T e Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 15 Rana Mitter T e Price of Collapse: T e Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China Timothy Brook 16 Donald Rayf eld A Nasty Little War: T e West ’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 18 Daniel Rey How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo 19 Tim Smith-Laing Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750 Noel Malcolm 20 Piers Brendon Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era Alwyn Turner 22 Caroline Moorehead I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped T em Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger • Cold Crematorium: Reporting f rom the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni

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contents february 2 0 2 4 • i s s u e 5 2 6

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classif ed Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell

T e Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, T e Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. T e latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife.

Literary Review | february 2024 2

diary 1 Kathr yn Hughes victorians 6 Norma Clarke

Hardy Women: Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Muses Paula Byrne 7 Rosemary Ashton

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain Judith Flanders the state we’re in 9 Richard V Reeves

Equality: T e History of an Elusive Idea Darrin M McMahon 11 Jonathan Wolf

In the Long Run: T e Future as a Political Idea Jonathan White 12 Justin Mundy

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Hannah Ritchie history 14 Michael Taylor

T e Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition 1776–1888 Robin Blackburn • Survivors: T e Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 15 Rana Mitter

T e Price of Collapse: T e Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China Timothy Brook 16 Donald Rayf eld

A Nasty Little War: T e West ’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 18 Daniel Rey

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo 19 Tim Smith-Laing

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750 Noel Malcolm 20 Piers Brendon

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era Alwyn Turner 22 Caroline Moorehead

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped T em Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger • Cold Crematorium: Reporting f rom the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni

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