Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invention of photography, about 1840, was a diversion both sexes delighted in; no gathering was complete without a camera. Few of the photos reprinted here have real artistic merit, but that, oddly enough, is their strength. They show the Victorian aristocracy as it saw itself: serene, assured and confident, as no one has been since, that tomorrow would be just the same as today. In one 1858 picture. Lord Palmerston, who was soon to be Prime Minister, stands with a group on the impressive steps of his manor, Broadlands; his top hat makes him look ten feet tall, and, judging...
...Opera House, a lovely Victorian fantasy that would look more at home on the Mississippi than the Connecticut River, has roamed the theatrical past like a Wurlitzer time machine...
...VICTORIAN WORKING WOMEN: PORTRAITS FROM LIFE by Michael Hiley Godine; 142 pages...
...when he was 30, the wealthy Victorian Arthur Munby took upon himself a singular task: the detailed observation of women engaged in manual labor. Until his death in 1910, Munby faithfully made his rounds, traveling to Yorkshire fishing villages, to Welsh coal fields and, on occasion, to France and Belgium. The result of this avocation is a series of richly drawn portraits. Editor Michael Hiley has sifted through voluminous notes to provide a gallery of dustwomen, fishergirls, sackmakers, brickmakers and collier girls, complete with a sense of their accents, labor conditions, social attitudes, even the texture and color of their...
...review them. He once said of Oscar Williams' poems that they appeared to have been "written on a typewriter by a typewriter." He complained of Kenneth Patchen's heavyhandedness by saying, "When Mr. Patchen hints, the pigs run in from miles around." He described the neo-Victorian poets Leonard Bacon and Witter Bynner as "traditional in the sense that an index is traditional; they are the remains of something necessary under no longer existing conditions...