Jean Robin. The Way We Lived Then. ...

Jean Robin. The Way We Lived Then. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000 168 pp ISBN 0-754-60066-1 $6900

Curiously, as this review is being written, British audiences are being treated to a lavish TV adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, a depiction of the social and financial mores of the upper ten thousand of later Victorian England. Jean Robin's monograph affords an interesting contrast. In place of a cast of shady foreigner financiers, ruggedly virtuous Tory squires, earnest young civil engineers, and questionable lady writers, it tenders a gallery of lace-makers,