“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Materialists' is a kind of Victorian romance, because it's about the marriage market, the way that they always are. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder. — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland - in fact only a tiny… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
“Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.” — Will Thomas Copy Share Image
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
“By the close of the Victorian age Britain’s officer classes were increasingly the inheritors, rather than the winners, of empire.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. — James Agate Copy Share Image
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“This is the Victorian era," she said. "Women didn't have to make sense.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
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