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Kilvert's World of Wonders: Growing up in Mid-Victorian England
By John Toman
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Kilvert’s World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside.
Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life.
Toman’s new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert’s family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert’s life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout.
Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a ‘world of wonders’.
Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life.
Toman’s new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert’s family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert’s life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout.
Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a ‘world of wonders’.
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John Toman
John Toman is a historian who served as president for the Lawndale-Crawford Historical Society. His work in historical preservation in western Illinois has saved many old buildings in the area. He lives in Chicago. Michael Frutig is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He graduated from the University of Iowa. He lives in Chicago.
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