G M Young

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Historian George Malcolm Young (1882-1959) is most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936). Simon Schama described it as "An immortal classic, the greatest long essay ever written."

Young was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. For many years he was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum.

[edit] Quotes from Portrait of an Age

  • “to play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.“
  • “The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.”

For other quotes see wikiquote

[edit] Books by Young

  • Early Victorian England (ed.)
  • The Good Society
  • Burke
  • Charles I and Cromwell: An Essay
  • Daylight and Champaign
  • Government of Britain
  • Mr Gladstone
  • Rights and Duties in the Modern State
  • Scott and History
  • Stanley Baldwin
  • Today and Yesterday: Collected Essays and Addresses Last Essays
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