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Victorian Miniature

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Cambridge University Press, May 2, 1991 - History - 189 pages
Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been between the Manor and the Vicarage . Owen Chadwick s Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village. Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities. The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.
  

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The two central figures of the book, Sir John Boileau and William Wayte Andrew, squire and vicar respectively of Ketteringham, a village in Norfolk, are unimportant in and of themselves. Their ... Read full review

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Acknowledgements
8
SQUIRE AND PARSON
9
ANDREW
16
KETTERINGHAM
34
SIR JOHN BOILEAU
58
THE SUBMISSION OF THE CLERGY
75
JAMES RUSH
103
AMA
121
THE COFFINS
132
CHARLES
147
CAROLINE
157
EPILOGUE
179
Sources
183
Index
185
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Victorian Miniature, with its account of the relations of. squire and parson in. a. Norfolk village in the 1840s, Owen Chadwick points ...
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GENUKI: Norfolk: Genealogy: Towns and Parishes: Ketteringham
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About the author (1991)

Owen Chadwick was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge from 1968 to 1983. He has written many books, including "The Reformation," "The Victorian Church," "The Popes and European Revolution," as a result of which he was awarded the Wolfson Prize for history, and "Michael Ramsey,"

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