Writing

Victorian Writers Then & Now

My first book: sixty reflections on modern life, written as a nineteenth-century author might have written them, each set beside its modern translation.

Bound in red cloth and stamped in gold, it is for anyone who delights in the elegance of older English, and who enjoys discovering how much (and how little) has changed since.

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Victorian Writers Then & Now by Thomas Finch, Esq., a red clothbound hardback stamped in gold, in a shaft of sunlight

About the book

Author

Thomas Finch

Format

Clothbound hardback, first edition

Inside

Sixty reflections, each with its modern translation

Published

London, MMXXV (2025)

Available from

englishenjoyed.com

The cover beside Plate No. 1 and the contents page, which begins with Hello, Yes, and Go away

In the hand

The book open at an illustrated plate beside a cup of tea
The book open in sunlight on a woven rug
The gilt page edges catching the light
Red and gold head and tail bands above the gilt edge
The red ribbon marker laid across an open page
The book beside Plate No. 3, a victim of circumstance

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