Philip Ziegler

Daring? No. Well written? Yes

A review of The Last Victorians, by W. Sydney Robinson. Ignore the misleading blurb and revel in the research, writing and bizarre characters in this portrait of four 20th-century eccentrics

Dean Inge, one of the last Victorians. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 
issue 26 July 2014

  • The Last Victorians

    W. Sydney Robinson

    The Robson Press, pp. 304

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