by Antonia Fraser · W&N · tapa dura · ISBN 9780297864301
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«Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832» is Antonia Fraser's historical essay, published by W&N in hardback (318 pages, in English).
It recreates the British crisis of 1830-1832 that culminated in the Great Reform Act. Fraser pits Lord Grey's Whigs against the Duke of Wellington's opposition. A medieval system gave no vote to cities like Manchester, while rotten boroughs like Old Sarum sent MPs; the work shows how that corrupt order was eventually reformed.
Published on 9 May 2013; first edition. The volume includes bibliographical references (pages 289-295) and an index.
For readers of British history and nineteenth-century politics, interested in the origins of parliamentary democracy and its protagonists.
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
