The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life

"Lubenow and his subject seem at first glance an unlikely match....In fact, THE CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES is rather a success. It will not gratify readers whose idea of a group biography is that it should contain a great deal of gossip told very fast. But it will appeal to anyone who is curious about a lot of other questions: whether the 'rank and file' Apostles were strikingly less interesting than the glamorous figures we know about already, whether the Apostles were on average socially more up-market than their contemporaries; whether they went into particular sorts of career after their glittering youths were done; and whether they had much collective impact on the wider world....Lubenow is interested in a whole raft of different topics, and the only complaint one can decently level at THE CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES is that it doesn't wholly hang together....[But i]t would be carping to press very hard on [this point]."W. C. Lubenow is the author of 'The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life', published 1999 under ISBN 9780521572132 and ISBN 0521572134.