Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is only one trade open to a man called Posket, especially if his first name is Aeneas. He is destined to assume a lead role in a Victorian farce...
...Moving Finger. Victorian ladies sneaked the poems upstairs and hid them under their pillows. Lovers read them aloud, and young men quoted sadly that "The Moving Finger Writes; and, having writ, Moves on . . ." Far into the 20th Century, the contagion persisted, and Journalist-Historian Mark Sullivan, in Our Times, felt himself obliged to record that Omar's bibulous philosophy had had the "effect of sapping and undermining" U.S. morals...
...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
Tabitha is raised the plain daughter of a plain doctor in a plain town. With an ingratiating knack for saying the right thing or nothing at all, she quickly rises to become the mistress of a wealthy Londoner, and the social chairwoman of a group of anti-Victorian artists. When her man dies, Tabitha gracefully marries an manufacturer, and finds herself running a near-Victorian household. From there she moves on to inn-keeping, and finally to dependence on her grandchildren...
Gilbert and Sullivan found the location of a funny-bone which was not an exclusive feature of the English Victorian physique. Their works have three levels: the actual setting, be it the Cornish coast or the imperial court of Japan; the institutions of Victorian England which are being lampooned; and some indefinable sense of humor which the English-speaking world has maintained for at least 75 years. For those who are not lacking in this last ingredient, an evening at the Opera House is definitely in order...