1. Post-war Britain found its own literary history, at least since mid-Victorian times, still unwritten.

2. In terms of our longer history of medico-moral politics the battle over the legislation certainly marked a watershed in mid-Victorian social reform.

3. It is Arguable that the 'picture' he paints so vividly is really that of the 'mid-Victorian' period and not that of either the early decades or the last

4. 2009 Patrick Maume, "McCausland, Dominick" in Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy / Cambridge University Press) His writings reflect many of the Arrogances and anxieties of mid-Victorian British imperialism and anglican evangelicalism