#JLF 2014: Readings- The Age of Wonder/The Victorians

Readings: Richard Holmes and AN Wilson introduced by Jonathan Shainin Two of the world’s most distinguished biographers, Richard Holmes and AN Wilson, look at two periods of history that helped shape the world. Holmes’s ’Age of Wonder’ is a dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery. In ’The Victorians’, AN Wilson singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers and soldiers whose lives illuminated an age on the cusp of modernity.