Victorian Worthies: Vanity Fair's Leaders of Church and State

by Malcolm Johnson

Ian Hislop (Foreword), Revd Richard Coles (Foreword), and Richard Coles (Foreword)

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Victorian Worthies collects the very best caricatures of the leading church figures of Victorian Britain from the pages of the original Vanity Fair magazine.

The brilliant colour cartoons by ‘Ape’ and ‘Spy’ and accompanying vignette by ‘Jehu Junior’ (editor Thomas Gibson Bowles) are here reproduced, with a brief modern-day biography by priest Malcolm Johnson.

Includes portraits of William Gladstone, Samuel Wilberforce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin, Anthony Trollope, John Henry Newman, Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria, William Spooner, Robert Baden-Powell, Winston Churchill, Edward VII, Cosmo Lang and G K Chesterton.
  • ISBN10 0232531102
  • ISBN13 9780232531107
  • Publish Date 21 August 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English