Also, by the way, this iteration of the Jackal is the most incompetent master assassin of all time. The showrunner’s desire to humanize him really got in the way of him being convincing as the worlds greatest assassin. And the agent hunting him, played by Lashana Lynch, is no better, ...
—Paul Thornton/Thorncroft(1888, novella of 20K words) serialised inThe Colonist:ch1;ch2-3;ch3 (cont.);ch5(final). Blair, Florence aka Louisa Florence Blair, Mrs Florence Baverstock, “Cleo”, “A Victorian girl” (with her sister Lillian); b. 1860; d. 1937 —A trip to the Jenolan ...
Victorian sex lives come out of the corset; The story goes that in the age of Empire proper women simply lay back and thought of England. But, writes Trevor Royle, there are plenty of examples of ladies in the 1800s who actually enjoyed libidinous excesses...
Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing: Marry, Stitch, Die, Or Do Worse The ""Angel-in-the-House"" figure is an ideal commonly used to define sexual standards of the Victorian age. Although widely considered to be the cultural ""norm"", the Victorian Angel, revered for her morality, ...
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These are the trademarks of Sarah Waters’ fiction, which includes the Booker-nominatedFingersmith,Tipping the Velvet,and most recently,The Paying Guests.Covering a span of eras from the Victorian age to the Roaring Twenties, Waters turns a brilliant eye on identity and the underground spaces to ...
During the war, women had had to be recruited into the civilian work force—in factories “for the duration,” in offices sometimes for good. The net result was to encourage women’s emancipation. In 1918, British women over the age of 30 were given the vote—although…Read More Latin ...
—Windbreaks(1936, serialised inThe age) Bulcock, Emily, birth name: Emily Palmer; aka Emily Hemans Bulcock, Emily H Bulcock; b. 28 Jul 1877, Tinana, QLD; d. 4 Sep 1969, Qld. Bulcock was a prolific poet who had many individual poems published during the1930s inThe Brisbane Courier, and...
278. VICINUS, Martha (ed) Suffer and Be Still: women in the Victorian age Methuen 1972 An excellent collection of essays. Paper covers – fine – scarce [2388] £25 279. WANDOR, Michelene Post-War British Drama: looking back in gender Routledge, revised edition 2001 Soft covers – mint...
“from the bottom up,” they have had to create their own evidence through interviews with those shut out of the documentary record. Students of VictorianEnglandhave long depended on the interviews with costermongers and other street people byHenry Mayhew, the author ofLondon Labour and the ...