The Bertrams

Published in the same year as Darwin's Origin of Species, The Bertrams examines the doctrine of competition and the survival of the fittest in Victorian society through the contrasted careers of three young Oxford graduates. Its principal, moving story concerns the tragic confusion of the brilliant scholar George Bertram, radically at odds with the ethos of the age, and torn between youthful idealism and love for the regal, ambitious Caroline Waddington.


Genre: Literary Fiction