The Wedgwood family, which two hundred years age produced an elegant and distinguished sort of pottery, has in this generation produced an elegant and distinguished historian. Miss C. V. Wedgwood is an acknowledged authority on the English Civil War period and her books on it are justly admired by a wide lay public.
She is a betwixt-and-between type of person. Her intellectual sympathies lie with Cromwell and the forces of Parliament but her heart belongs to the King and the Cavaliers. Similarly, her writing style is neither wholly that of the austere scholarly historian nor flamboyantly that of the historical popularizer.
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