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Article: James Kay-Shuttleworth, journey of an outsider.(Review)
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- Australian Journal of Education
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- August 1, 1998
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James Kay-Shuttleworth, journey of an outsider
R.J.W. Selleck Illford, Essex: Woburn Press, 1994.
Immediately the reader understands why this study of an eminent Victorian, eminent for being an outsider rather than a paragon, received a book prize from the History of Education Society (Britain). It is a masterpiece. In every respect, this biography of James Kay-Shuttleworth, civil servant and educational pioneer, is a magnificent example of the genre. At every moment, the reader is completely in the hands of an artist, a Virgil guiding him through the intricacies of a civilisation that blended late Georgian and early Victorian values. Aristocratic ...