Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accorded his classic black-&-white illustrations for Rabelais, Coleridge, Balzac, Dante, Cervantes and the Bible. His paintings were blandly ignored by 19th Century Paris, but Doré managed to sell the whole lot of them to an English dealer for $300,000. They were more to the taste of Victorian London. Queen Victoria bought a few herself, and for 21 years a Bond Street gallery exhibited the rest. Shipped to the U.S., the paintings were valued at $1,000,000 and viewed by over a million people in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Many wept over them; several clergymen felt...
...rambling, red-brick Victorian house with a rambling garden, he opened his famed progressive Summerhill School for boys & girls, where 70 sons & daughters of middle-class parents enjoy its unusual atmosphere. "The art of teaching," Neill decided, "is the art of leaving children alone." Summerhill is Britain's most progressive school. At his school ("That dreadful School," he likes to call it), there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children lay down in their weekly meetings. The children are permitted to swear, steal, smash things up, masturbate, lie, play hookey or do anything else that...
...zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
Hinkley Manor, which "had never been restored or preserved or quainted up with spinning-wheels and wrought-iron lanterns," is a world of feminine ideals in which many readers will discover a Victorian heritage. Readers may have the feeling that they have read it all before, but they will enjoy the quiet patrimony of English charm which the author settles on her people. The Happy Prisoner often trembles on the verge of sentimentality; what saves it from toppling over is Miss Dickens' ability to create characters who are intimately, almost tediously, convincing...
...MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy...