Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AUNT AGATHA, THERE'S A LION UNDER THE COUCH!, by Wende and Harry Devlin (D. Van Nostrand; $3.95). Aunt Agatha and Matthew live together in a big old Victorian house. One day, Matthew says he sees a lion, and Aunt Agatha, who knows all about small boys' fantasies, gently tells him: "You laugh at it, and it becomes paler and paler until it disappears." But the lion turns out to be real-which just goes to show, muses Aunt Agatha, that "you never can tell when a little boy has something very important...
...named Hung on You, favors garish antique clothes. For her wedding in a Roman Catholic church (Harlech's children were raised in his wife's religion, but he is an Anglican), which she planned without informing her parents until the day ahead, she chose a mid-calf Victorian model. Julian, 27, heir to the title, hires himself out as a male model. "My hands are my specialty," he explains. "Being long and delicate, they're useful for cigarette ads." Victoria, 21, lives with her grandmother, and the two youngest, 16-year-old Alice and 14-year...
...year was 1904, and scattered about Europe half a dozen men, unacquainted with one another, were lighting the fuse of the post-Victorian revolution-Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky. But they didn't matter at all. For in Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become...
Marshmallow Bogs. Eminent Victorians was a light at the end of a tunnel for its author too. The eleventh of 13 children of a Victorian soldier-scientist, Lytton Strachey grew up as the most squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent...
...book reviewer and minor literary essayist. Then in 1918, after two years of fierce work in defiance of his chron ically miserable health, he brought out the four devastating historical essays-on Dr. Arnold, Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and Chinese Gordon-that shredded all lingering pretensions of Victorian moral eminence. "The his torian of Literature," Strachey had once written, "is the historian of exploded reputations"; by diligently dynamiting the reputations of others, he built his own. In his last 14 years, he wrote two exceedingly successful biographies, Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Essex. But it was Eminent Victorians that opened...