More specifically concerning: victorian
terra incognita
10 February 2013, around 5.14.
Charles Reade, under the banner of imagination, departs from everyday life to parts unknown. 1 Charles Reade shows up in Jean Strouse’s biography of Alice James: Her improving health allowed Alice to enjoy a greater range of intellectual life than before. She went to the theater […] and she was reading a great deal, particularly […]
a wholesome note of doubt
8 February 2015, around 9.16.
‘With so little new reading-matter to distract us we were able to carry all the details in our head until the next issue.’
Crambe repetita (37)
15 June 2015, around 5.52.
M.V. Hughes, A London Home in the 1890s.