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#victorian

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #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

Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.


Anthony Trollope


#victorians #nature

No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.” Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.


Lia Habel


#dystopian #fiction #lia-habel #neo-victorian #paranormal

The night before I married you your father made me promise to always take care of you.” I laughed a little, easily able to picture my tall, burly father cornering the young knight I had fallen in love with. “To the best of my ability I have kept that promise.” I laid my hand on his chest to comfort the tension that rippled through his muscles. “You have, Lance,” I assured him. He took my hand in his and turned very serious. “No, I haven’t. I haven’t provided you with everything you need.


Derendrea


#erotic-fantasy #explicit-erotica #historical-erotica #victorian-erotica #love

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.


Georgina Chapman


#dress #family #full #great-grandfather #incredibly

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.


Ken Follett


#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.


Alicia Witt


#exotic #get #redheads #stereotyped #totally






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