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G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 in Greenhithe, Kent – 18 November 1959 in Goring, Oxfordshire) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, ''Portrait of an Age'' (1936). ==Biography== Young was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. From 1908 to 1920 he was employed as a civil servant, initially with the Board of Education and from 1917 with the Ministry of Reconstruction. For many years he was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum. ''Portrait of an Age'' was an expanded version of the 89-page conclusion to ''Early Victorian England'', a two-volume collection which Young had edited in 1934.〔Peter Stansky, Review of George Kitson Clark (ed.), ''Portrait of an Age'', 1977 annotated edition, ''The American Historical Review'' (1979), pp. 165-6〕 Simon Schama has described it as "An immortal classic, the greatest long essay ever written."
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