#victorianengland — Public Fediverse posts

7 photos showing #England now and 125 years ago: https://zorz.it/2MmXNzr

#AušrysUptas #comparison #HistoricalPhotos #London #ModernTimes #ThenVsNow #photos #VictorianEngland #VintagePhotos

7 photos showing #England now and 125 years ago: https://zorz.it/2MmXNzr

#AušrysUptas #comparison #HistoricalPhotos #London #ModernTimes #ThenVsNow #photos #VictorianEngland #VintagePhotos

7 photos showing #England now and 125 years ago: https://zorz.it/2MmXNzr

#AušrysUptas #comparison #HistoricalPhotos #London #ModernTimes #ThenVsNow #photos #VictorianEngland #VintagePhotos

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

3,000 years of #women’s #BeautyStandards compressed in 3-minute video https://zorz.it/zHDnj | #Audra #AncientEgypt #AncientGreece #BodyType #ConceptOfBeauty #ItalianRenaissance #VictorianEngland #history

Today's the birthday of #CharlesDickens who was #BOTD in 1812, 213 years ago!
#Dickens often depicts #ChildPoverty in #VictorianEngland, as does this new book by Lynn Hamilton on the reality of impoverished kids like #OliverTwist in #VictorianHistory

#Victoriana #Dickensiana #WorkingClassHistory

Veronica and Stoker are back at it, so this week let's discuss their latest adventure in A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn.

Click below to read all my theories about what comes next for our sleuthing couple!

#bookreview #murdermystery #VictorianEngland

https://writinglynn.com/woms-a-grave-robbery/

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Princess Ida ✧

Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was Gilbert and Sullivan's eighth operatic collaboration, preceding The Mikado. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre in 1884 and ran for 246 performances. Based on the narrative poem The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the opera concerns a princess who fo...

#SavoyTheatre #VictorianEngland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Ida

I'm rereading the works of Wilkie Collins chronologically. I first read them in my twenties, when I didn't understand capitalism and slavery at all, having been lied to by teachers for my entire life to that point. I loved the books unproblematically then, but now the political dimension oppresses my attention.

These people all have servants because they enclosed the commons and made it illegal not to have a job. Their income comes ultimately from slave labor in the colonies. Their ubiquitous sugar, rice, indigo, is made from destroyed African lives. Their gracious lives float on an ocean of blood.

As does mine in the present along with everyone else here in the imperial core. I tell myself that it's better hidden now, so easier to live with, but I bet it felt as hidden to the average middle or upper class citizen of Victorian England.

For all that, though, goddamit The Woman In White is a freaking great novel!

#Slavery #Abolition #Capitalism #WilkieCollins #VictorianLiterature #VictorianEngland #TheWomanInWhite

I've been diving in the archives and this, from the Illustrated Times in 1860, made me laugh #VictorianEngland

@oldbookillustrations
Razor Sprinter 1849:

A duely warranted officer of Scotland Yard's recently instituted 'Razor Sprinter' division, applies an early analog version of the Voight-Kampff test to determine if the female suspect under observation is in fact a non-human 'duplicant' servitor.

The etching which rocked Victorian society by posing the unbelievable question: Could duplicants be humans, of a sort, after all?

#Bladerunner #Bladerunner2049 #VictorianEngland #Humor

A #tree in a #London #cemetery named after the author Thomas Hardy has toppled over. A living link to #VictorianEngland, it was surrounded by 18th- and 19th-century #gravestones and was a popular site for locals and tourists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/europe/hardy-tree-london.html

"Exposure" promises a lot of juicy details, but then never really delivers. Instead it spends it's time setting a scene that we already know. My review is here: https://impendingfascination.com/exposure-the-nevers/

#amaliatrue #drhauge #hugoswann #josswhedon #laviniabidlow #nevers #penanceadair #TheNevers #Thetouched #touched #victorianengland