“Some of the best things said about it and what it foretells are little better than self-conscious talk to fill up time.”
About William Brighty Rands
24 December 1823–23 April 1882
William Brighty Rands was born on 24 December 1823, in Chelsea, then a district on the western edge of London and already a place where commerce, domestic life, artistic ambition, and metropolitan poverty met in close quarters. He died on 23 April 1882, having lived only fifty-eight years, and his name is now far less…