A Victorian Portrait: Victorian Life and Values As Seen Through the Work of Studio Photographers

by Asa Briggs, Archie Miles

Gathers Victorian photographs and explains what they reveal about the period's attitudes

Genres: Photography, History

220 pages, Hardcover

First published October 26, 1989

About the author

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was an English historian, best known for his studies on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, Victorian People, Victorian Cities, and Victorian Things made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century. He was made a life peer in 1976.