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- McNamee,Honor and the Epic Hero, 51–3.
- Julius (Publius?) Cornelius Tacitus,Life of Gnaeus Julius AgricolaHerbert W. Bernario, trans.,
Tacitus’ Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1991), 28. - Gildas,The Ruin of Britain and Other Works, Michael Winterbottom, ed., trans., (London:
Phillimore, 1978), 18. - Charles Kightly,Folk Heroes of Great Britain(London: Thames & Hudson, 1983), 53.
- John Milton,The History of Britain, That Part especially now call’d England, From the first Traditional
Beginning Continu’d to the Norman Conquest(London: Ri. Chiswell, 1695), 79–80. - Antonia Fraser,The Warrior Queens(New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 297–9, 324–5.
The £3,800 necessary to cast the statue and provide the plinth on which it stands were
raised by public subscription, an indication of public popularity. Boudicca also proved
to be a favorite of the suffragette movement. - Graham Webster,Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome, AD 60(Totowa, NJ: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1978), 86–101. - Denis Judd,Empire: The British Imperial Experience, From 1765 to the Present (London:
HarperCollins Publishers, 1996), 155. - See Mark Girouard,The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman(New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1981), ch. 12, ‘The Return of Arthur,’passim. See also Donald S.
Hair,Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson’s Poetry(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981),
136–7, for the paucity of martial exploit in the Victorian treatment of the Arthurian cycle. - Norman Vance,The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature
and Religious Thought(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 98–101. Not all
Victorian authors and philosophers had such a profound respect of ‘Saxon Liberalism.’
Carlyle dismissed such aspirations toward a rude democracy as merely a lot of
barbarians ‘lumbering about in pot-bellied equanimity.’ - Alfred, Lord Tennyson,The Best of Tennyson, Walter Graham, ed. (New York: The Ronald
Press Company, 1930), 9. This earlier estimation of Tennyson remains current in modern
critique; see Marion Shaw, ‘The Contours of Manliness and the Nature of Woman’, in
Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, Herbert F. Tucker, ed. (New York: G. K. Hall, 1993), 220. - Tennyson, ‘Ulysses,’Best Of, 115.
- Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, ‘Horatius at the Bridge,’ quoted in J. E. Pournelle,
ed.,There Will Be War, Volume IX: After Armageddon(New York: Tom Doherty Associates,
1990), 181. - Michael K. Goldberg, ‘Introduction to Thomas Carlyle’, inOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, and
the Heroic in History(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993), xxxiv. - Henry Newbolt, ‘Vitai Lampada’, inAdmirals All and Other Verses, 22.
- G. A. Henty,One of the 28th:A Tale of Waterloo(New York: Hurst, 1890?), 254.
- G. A. Henty,With Moore at Corunna(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897), 13.
- Arthur Kerr Slessor, The 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in Tirah (London: Swan
Sonnenschein, 1900), 67. - Byron Farwell,Queen Victoria’s Little Wars(New York: W. W. Norton, 1972), 132.
- G. A. Henty,Facing Death, or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit(New York: Hurst, n.d.).
- G. A. Henty,A Final Reckoning(New York: Hurst, n.d.).
- G. A. Henty,Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea(New York: Hurst, n.d.), 63.
- For example, see Natascha U. Haghofer,The Fall of Arthur’s Kingdom: A Study of Tennyson’s
‘The Holy Grail’(Salzburg: University of Salzburg Press, 1997), 74.