36. The Victorians had a special code language using flowers. The Victorians were into all sorts of weird ways to send messages, and flowers were no exception. The flowers you gave someone would send them a message, and people wrote whole books about which flowers meant what. For example, ...
Philanthropy:Many wealthy Victorians engaged in philanthropy, funding schools, hospitals, and charitable organizations. Figures likeFlorence Nightingaleand Dr. Thomas Barnardo made significant contributions to social welfare. Religion:Religion played a crucial role in Victorian society. The Church of England ...
Victorians said "prunes" when taking pictures. Whenever we take photos, we say “cheese” because it makes us smile. However, smiling in photographs was once seen as a vulgar act. To keep a neutral face, they would say “prunes,” there was little to no chance of it forming a smile. ...
s lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston attracted thousands of people of both sexes and every social station. Lyell wrote enthusiastic and informative books, in 1845 and 1849, about each of his two long visits to the New World. Unlike the majority of well-off Victorians, Lyell was a ...
In making a rhetorical approach to various discursive acts, one may speak of the rhetoric of a discourse—say, Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” (1842)—and mean by that the strategies whereby the poet communicated with his contemporaries, in this case the Victorians, or with modern...