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c o n t e n t s o c t o b e r 2 0 1 2 • i s s u e 40 3 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants Tom Williams • David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design. Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 2 2 f r om the p u l p i t 1 Tom Holland v i c t or i a n s 5 Simon Heffer The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London Judith Flanders 6 Sarah Bradford Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household Kate Hubbard 7 Gillian Tindall Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty & the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England Sarah Wise b i o g r a p hy 9 Seamus Perry John Keats: A New Life Nicholas Roe 10 Claire Harman Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy, Violence & Murder in Georgian London Ian Kelly 12 Catherine Peters The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton Diane Atkinson 13 Anne Sebba Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites & Their Muses Henrietta Garnett 14 John Sutherland The Great Charles Dickens Scandal Michael Slater • Dickens and the Workhouse Ruth Richardson p e a c e u n t o nat i on s 16 Adam Zamoyski Governing the World: The History of an Idea Mark Mazower 18 Michael Burleigh Interventions: A Life in War & Peace Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh h i st or y 19 Simon J V Malloch And Man Created God: Kings, Cults, & Conquests at the Time of Jesus Selina O’Grady 20 Norman Stone The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark 22 Caroline Moorehead I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism David Boyd Haycock • Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War & the Struggle Against Fascism Richard Baxell
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c o n t e n t s o c t o b e r 2 0 1 2 • i s s u e 40 3

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants Tom Williams • David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell

The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design. Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife.

Literary Review | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 2 2

f r om the p u l p i t 1 Tom Holland v i c t or i a n s 5 Simon Heffer

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London Judith Flanders 6 Sarah Bradford

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household Kate Hubbard 7 Gillian Tindall

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty & the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England Sarah Wise b i o g r a p hy 9 Seamus Perry

John Keats: A New Life Nicholas Roe 10 Claire Harman

Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy, Violence & Murder in Georgian London Ian Kelly 12 Catherine Peters

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton Diane Atkinson 13 Anne Sebba

Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites & Their Muses Henrietta Garnett 14 John Sutherland

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal Michael Slater • Dickens and the Workhouse Ruth Richardson p e a c e u n t o nat i on s 16 Adam Zamoyski

Governing the World: The History of an Idea Mark Mazower 18 Michael Burleigh

Interventions: A Life in War & Peace Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh h i st or y 19 Simon J V Malloch

And Man Created God: Kings, Cults, & Conquests at the Time of Jesus Selina O’Grady 20 Norman Stone

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark 22 Caroline Moorehead

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism David Boyd Haycock • Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War & the Struggle Against Fascism Richard Baxell

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