Victorian England

First published in 1936 as Portrait of an Age, this essay-history describes the English nineteenth century as a climate of mind rather than a year-by-year chronicle. Young traces evangelical seriousness, utilitarian reform, the cult of progress, and the later doubts that unsettled mid-Victorian confidence. He moves among politics, religion, science, and domestic habit, using representative figures and institutions instead of a single narrative hero. The book is a cultural portrait of an age, not a textbook survey of ministries and not a biography of Queen Victoria.

Bound in dark blue buckram blocked with a gilt design. Dark blue slipcase with series title in a pale blue panel on front.