Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts' green and social Berkshire hills, a pioneer landowner in 1849 was William Aspinwall Tappan, Boston merchant and banker. He purchased 210 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, called it "Tanglewood," built a Victorian mansion on it. He also built a small red cottage which he rented to Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best...
...week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised, has acted as the greatest graft-purge in Egyptian history. Standards...
CHARLES KINGSLEY-Margaret Farrand Thorp-Princeton University Press ($3). Amiable biography of the Victorian novelist-preacher-reformer who became the Queen's chaplain and paragon. Macmillan's most profitable novelist, he is little known today except as the author of The Water-Babies...
...rare instances of an Oxford fiction publication, "Coronation Summer," soon justifies itself as a valuable document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...wide range of situations. One indication of this is the names of the songs. They're all rather good, but slightly outstanding is "Totched in the Haid and Smitten in the Heart", and really superior is "Ten O'Clock Town", for which the boat momentarily becomes a little Victorian village, with lights blinked out two hours before midnight...