Annan, Noel

Annan, Noel, Leslie Stephen The Godless Victorian (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984)... 

For even if their personal and familial closeness makes them anomalous when seen in relation to the international avant-garde, it makes them entirely predictable in relation to the longer history of Britain s cultural elite, which has traditionally been drawn from a socially narrow, upper-middle-class metropolitan base. Writing as another insider, Noel Annan (Baron Annan), summarized the early twentieth-century British intellectual aristocracy in an instructive way ... 

Noel Annan, Our Age English Intellectuals Between the World Wars - A Group Portrait (New York Random House, 1990), p. 7. 

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