My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks. She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and qui...
Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost invariably he will be offered an assisted passage. Footnotes, Forewords, Afterwords serve notice that a given text...
The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were simply the effect of the plot and the imagined events then sensation novels like Walpole's The Castle of Otranto or Mrs Ra...
Jill, a comprehensive school teacher in her early thirties, has put her dark past behind her to become a lady in control of her own life. Successful in her career, soon to be divorced and with no emotional ties, she is content. Except that one mornin...
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how black is the darkness of a November night under high laurel bushes and yew-trees. I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not...
(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks flecked with the afternoon sunshine through the boughs: I was in the midst of such scenes, and ...
I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes. I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power - wells that have had to be filled up because of persons throwing themselves into them - trees that have had to b...
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.
Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth." Paradise Lot: GoneGodsWorld - Episode 1
