#victorian

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I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.


Simon Callow


#anything #books #character #feature #get

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.


Charles Dickens


#victorian #writing-life #change

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.


Annie Lennox


#era #fascinated #history #i #i am

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.


Terry Pratchett


#around #been #behind #bit #certain

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes


Virginia Woolf


#christiana-rossetti #inspiration #literature #vain #victorian-literature

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.


Louis Bayard


#prostitution #victorian-era #change

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.


James Ruddick


#poison #poison-study #poisoning #true-crime #victorian

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been


George R. Gissing


#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

---In his major phase, he[Conrad] was "ahead of his times" in ideas and techniques;and this was because he was more intelligently and perceptively of his times than most writers then were. In his vigilant response to 19th century preoccupations, he anticipated--often critically--many 20th century preoccupations. He was a versatile intermediary between the Romantic and Victorian traditions and the innovations of Modernism.


Cedric Watts A Preface to Conrad p


#literary-status #modernism #victorian #intelligence

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10,000 a year as well as the lady.


Pamela Horn


#marriages-of-convenience #victoriana #victorians #life