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Book reviews: Charlotte & Lionel: A Rothschild love story: The art of being Jewish in Victorian Britain

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20030302
Author:IAN THOMSON

CHARLOTTE & LIONEL: A ROTHSCHILD LOVE STORY

Stanley Weintraub

Simon & Schuster GBP 17.99

ACCORDING to George Orwell, the only British writers who stood up for the Jews "before the days of Hitler" were Dickens and Charles Reade. He forgot George Eliot's sympathetic Daniel Deronda - and Dickens' Fagin - but otherwise Orwell was largely right. Caricatures of ugly, grasping Jews unfortunately mark 19th-century British fiction. Even Thackeray, that most likeable of Victorian novelists, disparaged one of the Rothschilds as a "greasy-faced compound of donkey and pig".

The Rothschild family's rise ...

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