Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...
...father. His hatred of his father was one of the guiding motives of his life. His rebellion against the stifling upbringing in his home, a gloomy country parsonage, led him to rebel against other sacred authorities, so that a later generation regarded him as "the first great exploder of Victorian hypocrisy, the pioneer rebel and inveigher against cant." Wrong, says Muggeridge. Far from being the great Anti, Butler was the Ultimate Victorian; his wildest crusades simply took him further into a Never-never Land. And Butler, says Muggeridge, was a thin-skinned snob, a spiteful prig...
Herbert George Wells has been seeing things for years, and telling about them at such length and with such irrepressible enthusiasm that now, at 70, he is well known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet...
...theatre, and audience were all conducive to a performance of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; the first was wet and sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles...
...Eyre" will always remain an interesting document, because of its intense individuality in an age when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young...