Rich Victorians lived in large houses that were well heated and clean. Children got a good education either by going away to school or having a governess who taught them at home (this is usually how girls were educated). Wealthy peoplecould also afford to buy beautiful clothes. All women in...
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If the next generation of women have any sense, they’ll dynamite the statue of Susan B. Anthony, and start a crusade for the revival of chivalry.” It’s thus no surprise when Lucia goes on to remarry, choosing a rich and dull banker whose dinner conversation consists of discussing who...
interest us. His life offers a convenient lens through which to look from a fresh angle at familiar issues and ideas. Bergonzi's book is a welcome addition to our knowledge of the lives and milieu of a class of Victorian men and women at a particularly rich moment in British cultural ...
The rich, opaque colours and the sharper edges that gouache can provide give the perfect medium with which to convey the deep reds and golds of an autumnal woodland, while still detailing the individual lamellae of mushrooms. Never having used gouache for a Jacquie Lawson card before, however,...
Take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the pastimes, hobbies, sports and other entertainments enjoyed by the Victorians and Edwardians through the rich variety of photographs and vintage postcards in this beautiful album. A world we usually see in monochrome or sepia is presented ...
Indeed, ordinariness was the point: the pleasures of ‘real women’ and girls next door, the sex lives of average husbands and average wives, the identification of beauty in all its forms, the hidden sexual worlds of bedsits and suburban semis, in John Cooper Clarke’s words, from ‘...
biography,reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography—an individual's interpretation of his own life—it shares a venerable tradition, meeting the demands of different audiences through the ages. ...
In addition, Victorians lived with a sexual double standard that few ever questioned before the end of the period. According to that double standard, men wanted and needed sex, and women were free of sexual desire and submitted to sex only to please their husbands. These standards did not ...
During the Victorian period, Britain was a powerful nation with a richculture. It had a stable government, a growing state, and an expanding franchise. It also controlleda large empire, and it was wealthy, in part because of its degree ofindustrializationand its imperial holdings and in spite...