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Victorian toys and games such as marbles were enjoyed by both boys and girls. Victorian marbles were usually made of glass or clay, although wealthier players had marbles made out of real marble! 19th century engraving of boys playing marbles ©antiqueimages - stock.adobe.com Tops and Jacks ...
This novel reverted to the Pickwick shape and atmosphere, though the indictment of the brutal Yorkshire schools (Dotheboys Hall) continued the important innovation in English fiction seen in Oliver Twist—the spectacle of the lost or oppressed child as an occasion for pathos and social criticism....
Wendys and Brandons of today were the Netties and Elizas and Philips of yore. It is my humble opinion that using period-correct names can add a certain “ring” to a story. During the Victorian era, Biblical names probably saw the most prevalent and common use, both for boys and girls...
Eugene Cremetti was born in Belgium, 1851, to Pierre Cremetti and Catherine Jeanette, nee Verhoeven[1]. The earliest record I have found for him was a newspaper notice of arrivals at the Bath Hotel[2], with his business partner, Max Hollender, 1876. In 1877, Cremetti and Hollender had...
the languages and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Boys participated in sports like football (soccer) and cricket. Although they set generally high standards, many of these schools at the beginning of the Victorian era were in need of reform. Over the decades during this period, such imp...
Performers such as Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno and Little Tich became household names and were in high demand by music halls owners to top their bills. The original railings Although most Victorian music halls are long gone, there is one that is still being used for entertainment today. Hoxton ...
Fanny worked in the Bottling Room, and her surname was also Crowne. But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the plant had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. Lenina pulled at her zippers—downwards on the jacket, downwards with a double...
This gazette appeared in various forms and under various names more or less continually to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911. The first regularly published newspapers appeared in German cities and in Antwerp about 1609. The first English newspaper, the Weekly Newes, was published in 1622. ...