Tuesday, May 21, 2019
All the Right Views
A.N. Wilson, The Victorians (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003), p. 152:
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Sometimes we can learn more of a past generation by reading the authors who were popular at the time and have now sunk without trace, rather than reperusing the immortals.
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Wordy, authoritative, cliché-ridden, Miss Martineau had the know-all tone which so often wins journalism wide readership and short-term respect. Like many of her modern equivalents, she had all the right views — that is the views espoused by the metropolitan intelligentsia.
