Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitwell Elwin was no ordinary Victorian clergyman. He was rich enough to demolish his parish church and build a new one, bold enough to design the blueprint himself. When Elwin's parishioners fell ill, "his Rev" (as he was called) was their doctor; when his wife had children, he acted as midwife. He had amiable eccentricities, such as cutting the Communion bread "into small squares, some for the communicants and some for his canaries." But the favorite hobby of this self-assured, broadminded parson was corresponding with growing girls, listening to their troubles and helping them with affectionate advice...
...that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife Edith, no "Patient Griselda," intervened. Edith was a childhood friend of Teddy's and a lifelong love. Her standards were Victorian, but she knew the business of being mother and running a household, and when she spoke up, Teddy knew the moment for silence had come...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Mar ghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...
...lion) stands for a young England ignorant of the social upheaval that the new century is destined to bring in. with such lawbreakers as Ted and Marian as its forerunners. But not effective forerunners, for Heroine Marian, despite her love and passion for Farmer Ted, is too Victorian to crash the class barrier. When Leo at last asks: "Marian, why don't you marry Ted?'', she only bursts into tears and wails: "I couldn't, I couldn't . . . I must marry [Trimingham] . . . I must...
...soon finds that the "original Gospel" according to Graves and Podro is a far cry from the canonical books of the New Testament. The canonical books, "judged by Greek literary standards" say Graves & Podro ". . . are poor; by historical standards, unreliable; and their doctrine is confused and contradictory. The late-Victorian atheist (was it Bradlaugh?) may be excused for remarking that they read as though 'concocted by illiterate, half-starved visionaries in some dark corner of a Graeco-Syrian slum...