“I will own, too, to having come away with more than a gratified…” — Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

“I will own, too, to having come away with more than a gratified curiosity, and to having found new worlds of thought and life in an atmosphere I had fancied to be only of decay.”

Acknowledging how experience overturned his preconceptions and opened unfamiliar worlds of thought · Essay, The Future of Islam, 1882

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

About Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

17 August 1840–10 September 1922

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, born on 17 August 1840 at Petworth in Sussex and dead on 10 September 1922 at Newbuildings Place, his Sussex home, lived a life unusually crowded with contradiction. He was an English gentleman who became one of Victorian Britain’s most persistent critics of empire; a formal, often old-fashioned…

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