The Remarkable
Lushington Family
The Remarkable
Lushington Family
Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites,
Positivists, and the
Bloomsbury Group
David Taylor, FSA
LEXINGTON BOOKS
Lanham • Boulder • New York • London
Cover image: Dr. Stephen Lushington, Miss Frances Carr, and members of the Lushington Family at Ockham Park. Courtesy of the Lushington Archive, Surrey History Centre.
Epigraph reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd © Noel Annan 1999
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Names: Taylor, David, 1947- author.
Title: The remarkable Lushington family : reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group / David Taylor.
Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009009 (print) | LCCN 2020009010 (ebook) | ISBN 9781793617156 (cloth) | ISBN 9781793617163 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Lushington family. | Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873. | Lushington, Vernon, 1832-1912. | Lushington, Kitty, 1867-1922. | Intellectuals—Great Britain—Biography. | Reformers—Great Britain—Biography. | Positivism—Great Britain. | Pre-Raphaelites—England—Biography. | Bloomsbury group.
Classification: LCC CS439 .L885 2020 (print) | LCC CS439 (ebook) | DDC 929.20941—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009009
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009010
Family connexions are part of the poetry of history. They call to mind the generations of men and women, who were born, married and died, and perhaps bequeathed to their descendants some trait of their personality. Some tradition of behaviour, which did not perish with the passing of years but persisted in their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s children, and so made the past immortal.
—Noel Annan, “The Intellectual
Aristocracy.” From The Dons:
Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses.
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1999)
The Victorian literary and artistic scene was one in which everybody seemed to know everybody else, and the intricate network of friendships, collaborations, marriage, and families that made up this world left a rich textual record of the larger-than-life personalities and diverse achievements of a generation.
—Natasha Moore, Victorian Connections:
The Literary and Artistic Circles of
William and Helen Allingham from the
Collections of Grolier Club Members.
(New York: The Grolier Club, 2015)
Contents
Published Works of Vernon Lushington
8 A “Disciple” of Maurice
9 A “Willing Hearer” of Carlyle
10 Comte: “A Light in a Dark World”
11 Art for Art’s Sake?
12 Pre-Raphaelite Portraits
13 Portrait of a Marriage
14 “My Life for Others”
15 A Legacy
