Victorian inventions like the steam engine and innovations like steel-making led to machines being made that could produce lots of the same thing at once.Factories were filled with machines like these. While it used to be that one person would be a weaver and make cloth, machines could now ...
the characters she writes about are living, breathing beings. I remember feedback she gave me regarding the cover: “Miss Trent would never carry the Infant Genius on her shoulder. She is a victorian governess. It’s
It’s chapter five I’ll be reading, “Governess,” the story of 1904 in Katharine’s life. I chose it because it’s a dramatic and largely unknown year of her life, as well as being quite self-contained as a narrative. Twenty-years-old and living away from home for the first time...
A common theme in science fiction is the use of drugs to alter people’s behavior and control them emotionally. That theme is explored in detail here, ostensibly as a means to do away with prisons and reform prisoners. But really, these experiments are for Abnesti, a psychopath, to exercis...
Etymology.com has cocktail as a “drink made from water, sugar, spirits and bitters” first attested 1798.” So the idea of a drink mixed with all sorts of things is nothing new (Ancient Greeks and Romans mixed all sorts of things into their wines). However, my stumbling across a ‘...
The unspoken love between the king and Anna completes the romantic gloss.The story is based, say filmmakers Fox, on the writings of Anna herself.So how accurate is this account of the Victorian governess who tutored the king's children?What is certain is that by any standard Anna Leonowens...
‘Arthur would never love me as he loved her. But there was justice in that. Because he would never spellbind me as she did.’To me, this carries strong echoes of the unnamed second wife in Daphne Du Maurier’sRebecca, except that the real Charlotte (no pun intended) has a positive ...
a Gothic horror story. The four main themes are thecorruption of the innocent,thedestructiveness of heroism, thestruggle between good and evil, thedifference between reality and fantasy. A fifth theme isthe perception of ghosts. Are the ghosts real or the projection of the governess’s madness?
"It is a form of marriage to a point as you are devoted to that family," says 78-year-old Rick Fink.Fink has more than 55 years of experience managing estates and working as a butler. He started off in the Royal Navy in 1953, and one of the first guests he served as a young ...
Period dramas about loss of a loved one don’t begin or end with the Victorian era, but elements of the 19th century image of widowhood reverberate through many of them.The subject has long been a popular one, and not just the story of the courageous but heart-broken woman who forges ...