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 ...
Precursor to the Victorian age : the concept of marriage and family as revealed in the correspondence of the Izard family of South Carolina / Wylma Wates -- Family and female identity in the ...
“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage ...