Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month after her engagement announcement, Margaret left Manhattan for Independence stubbornly determined on dignity. She disappeared into the family's 14-room, white Victorian house at 219 North Delaware Street for a week's seclusion, emerged only to greet New York Timesman Daniel when he flew in, later to meet his parents arriving from ZebuIon, N.C., then to attend a rehearsal and post-rehearsal dinner for the bridal party. On the wedding eve she relented slightly, agreed to join Daniel in a 20-minute press conference for 50 encamped reporters. (Sample exchange: News hen: "I would like...
Freudian Horrors. A study in Victorian vapors and villainy, Barretts struck fire from the opening scene, when Cornell's feckless brothers and sisters trooped in singly to wish her well. Stretched wanly on a chaise longue, Actress Cornell, 58, seemed too old for her role, but with her first big speech captured a youthful intensity that was an optical as well as an acting triumph. Henry Daniell gave one of his best performances, as a father tyrannical enough to cow a platoon of rebellious children, and in one searing moment-when he harshly kissed his fluttery niece, Bella-suggested...
...writes English (Home to India) with the flourish of conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes on the fantastic events in which, trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
Walters, who was described by an admirer as "a whore, sir, much sought after by fast young swells." The public knew her as "Skittles," and her rich patrons called her "Skitsie." As "the self-crowned queen of mid-Victorian harlotry," she maintained herself in London in such magnificence that the toilet seat in her bathroom was upholstered in swansdown. She was one of the most accomplished horsewomen of the time, was among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with...