{"product_id":"frederic-maddens-journal","title":"Frederic Madden's Journal: Life, Love \u0026 Loathing at the British Museum 1819-1872","description":"\u003ch6\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication: 29 April 2027\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA previously unpublished selection from the endlessly entertaining journals of Frederic Madden, one of the most colourful intellectual figures of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum from 1837 to 1866, kept an extraordinarily detailed daily record of his social, professional, emotional and sexual life over more than half a century. Written with irresistible wit and candour, Madden’s journal reveals him to be a memorable character of contrasts: moving in the highest circles of society while labouring nightly at a series of pioneering editions of medieval texts, and a devoted family man who feuded incessantly with his colleagues at the British Museum. Madden was an admirer of the diary of Samuel Pepys, and the literary quality of his own journal puts it in the same class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe previously unpublished journal of one of the most colourful intellectual figures of the nineteenth century is a great but little-known treasure of the Bodleian Library. Deftly edited into a single volume by Guy Philipps, this self-portrait of an eminent Victorian is sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, often moving, and always fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGUY PHILIPPS\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent scholar and researcher specialising in mid-Victorian literature and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEIL MacGREGOR\u003c\/strong\u003e was Director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015, and is the author of, among many other books, A History of the World in 100 Objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781851246861\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtent: 408 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 234 x 156mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrations: 14 Black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bodleian Libraries","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57449524199799,"sku":"BODS-104414","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/1850\/8859\/files\/9781851246861_Frederic_Madden_3D_resized.jpg?v=1790949043","url":"https:\/\/bodleianshop.co.uk\/products\/frederic-maddens-journal","provider":"Bodleian Libraries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}