Prudery”, someone immediately sang out, closely followed by “cholera” and “children up chimneys”. There was also talk of Victorian poverty, and A.N.

Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, was the first and certainly one of the most influential of twentieth-century attacks on Victorian morality. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, ...

The Victorian era conjures images of buttoned-up propriety, strict moral codes, and a society obsessed with decorum and respectability. It was a world of parlor etiquette, modest dress, and rigid ...

When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...

The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including wealth ...

THE GIRL WITH THE SWANSDOWN SEAT (263 pp.)—Cyril Pearl—Bobbs-Merrill ($3.95). It seems that more things went on behind Queen Victoria’s billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons ...