Victorian authors include names like: William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, and Sir ...
Although it may be true that English families in the Victorian period were not deliberately arranged with support for the elderly in mind (Thomson 1991), in practice, many families did provide such support, and those individuals who maintained a greater range and intensity of connections with ...
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, August 1866, pp. 237–40. 2 See for instance, Jennifer Phegley, Educating the Proper Woman Reader; Joanne (Wilkes 2010), Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Margaret Beetham, A Magazine of her Own?; and the work of the Research Society for...
While male critics castigated the bold and daring narrative as too gloomy for a “woman writer,” novelist Virginia Woolf called it “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” Vybarr Cregan-Reid The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
William Lonsdale was an English geologist and paleontologist whose studies of fossil corals suggested the existence of an intermediate system of rocks, the Devonian System, between the Carboniferous System (299 million to 359 million years old) and the S
FRANCE led American & English fashion despite the eras being named for the ENGLISH: “Georgian” (after 3 English kings named George), “Regency” (referring to the transition of power between 2 of the English Georges), & “Victorian” (almost a century of Queen Victoria’s dictates). Only...
then Thomas Cameron was born in Scotland in 1836 or 1837. His parents’ names are not recorded on the document, and another blank space suggests that he never married. His middle name, Bedford, is likely a clue to his ancestry, even if he added it when he was a young man to distingui...
How refreshing to learn from Professor Himmelfarb that those piano legs-like such other "Victorian" kinks as home libraries in which male authors were rigorously segregated from female authors-were generally "the invention of satirists, foisted by the English on gullible Americans and perpetuated by...
The original kitchen was positioned in the central part of the building and communicated with the dining hall ‘by two large windows’, copying the arrangement in English asylums. ‘The patients assemble in the dining-hall and their food having been arranged and placed in vessels for the purpose...
Although the main focus of Black's book is male clubs and how they contribute to patrons' Englishness, an epilogue gives women the last word. Entitled "A Room of Her Own," it briefly names some of the clubs catering solely to women that emerged in the latter part of the nineteenth ...