First published in 1913, Holbrook Jackson's The Eighteen Nineties is without doubt the authoritative work on the raffish, scandalous and tempestuous 'Yellow Nineties' of Beardsley, Wilde, Beerbohm and the rest.
Deals with the raffish, scandalous and tempestuous 'Yellow Nineties'. The author interprets the decade in terms of personalities, arguing that the period has quite a distinct character. He synthesises the various movements and relates them to one another, to their foreign influences, and to the main trends of British national art and life.
