Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME, March...
Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Random, informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME. March...
Forrest grew up in a big, comfortable Victorian house in Melrose, outside Boston. He built model ships, and with his pals re-enacted the charge of San Juan Hill in the wood behind the house, using cordwood for cannon...
...years Britain's Queen Mary had been diligently plying her needle. Last week she summoned reporters to see the result. A carpet measuring nearly-seven by ten feet, it consisted of twelve panels in gros point and a not-quite-finished floral border. Each panel bore a bright Victorian design of birds and flowers on a beige background...
George Healy was a poor Boston boy who grew up to be one of the most polished and widely admired portraitists of the Victorian age. When he died in 1894 his fame died with him. Last week it was revived, temporarily, by an exhibition of 67 Healy portraits at Richmond's Virginia Museum...