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Period-piece horror aficionado Robert Eggers is set to tackle A Christmas Carol, and the Nosferatu director is the perfect ...
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 ...
Victoria became an icon of late-19th-century middle-class femininity and domesticity. ' The Victorian era ... of femininity which was centred on the family, motherhood and respectability.
"To discover Victorian openness," Gay writes, "its measured candor, is one of the most astonishing rewards of studying middle-class culture. If 'Victorian' is a synonym for 'squeamishness' or ...
What does he mean? Dr. Wingfield-Stratford's answer is that the Victorian middle class was ‘tragic’ because its members went on their earnest and triumphant way quite unwitting of the ...
Touching on philanthropic initiatives in public housing, Picard also describes the architectural quirks of the typical Victorian middle-class terraced house and the everyday workings of the city's ...