Children’s books were no longer just for learning, they were fun! New titles such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island and The Jungle Book became hugely popular. Victorian children loved an adventure story! 11) This period was a great time for the arts, too! Some of ...
Today “Victorian” connotes a prudish refusal to admit theexistence of sex, hypocritically combined with constant discussions of sex, thinly veiled as a series of warnings. There is some truth to both sides of thisstereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, includingpor...
During the Victorian era, the age of consent was only 13 years old. Child labor still existed at the time. Many lower-class people saw their children as commodities because they could bring income into the family. Boys and girls as young as 11 or 12 could pass as 13 year olds and had...
Tennis originally was known as lawn tennis, and formally still is inBritain, because it was played on grass courts byVictoriangentlemen and ladies. It is now played on a variety of surfaces. The origins of the game can be traced to a 12th–13th-century Frenchhandballgame calledjeu de paume...
Oh, and your grade point average must be at least 2.0, and finally, you must be unmarried without any divorces or children in your past. Easy! Wikimedia Commons 29. The Times Are A’Changing One issue with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses (as well as the idea of debutante balls in ...
Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg were both evangelical preachers who thought sex should be avoided at all costs. Kellogg went all in andsuggested thatcarbolic acid be poured on the “sensitive parts of sexual organs” of aroused children. ...
15. Candace became a mom at 22, basically the age when the hustle really begins for actresses, especially former child stars who want to successfully transition into adult roles. But while she has zero regrets whatsoever about pressing pause on her career to care for her chi...
She had a deep desire to learn about “cannibal” people and the traditional religious rituals that were known as “fetish” during the Victorian era. She met Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary who was also a European woman who was single and living among a native African group, in April...
There’s some question if the society known as a “tea party” even existed in the 1770s. The British practice of high tea didn’t take hold until the Victorian Era in the mid-19th century, and Lewis Carroll’sAlice in Wonderland, with its famous “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,” wasn’...
Victorian historians thought the 12th-century conflicts halted the development of the English constitution. In a judgy move, the Victorians decided to call the ceaseless conflicts "Anarchy" instead of a fancier name. Unsurprisingly, lots of historians think this is bogus and criticize the term to ...