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The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife: Henry James’s Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878–1913
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- 978-0-81393-235-4
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- Univ. of Virginia
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Reviewed on October 15, 2012 | Literature
Lord and Lady Wolseley were among the elite of Victorian military society, he having been made commander in chief of the British army after a career of engagement in colonial wars and rebellions across the British Empire (he was indeed the model for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Modern Major General” in The Pirates of Penzance). She was wealthy, stylish, intelligent, well read, of independent mind, and hostess to a coterie of literary acquaintances, among them Henry Jam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
