What did the Victorians ever do for us? Victorious Century, David Cannadine, review

D avid Cannadine observes that it has ���become fashionable��� to denounce Victorian England ���for being (among other things) sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, classist and imperialist���. And yet, he observes, ���much of what seems to us as [sic] arrogance, intolerance and bigotry was often born of fear and ignorance, and of...