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
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton 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
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
“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
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad,… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs… — Sandra Tsing Loh 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
“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
“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
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
“a tidy Folk Victorian, two stories, bright blue, and dotted with windows. A picket fence framed a postage-stamp yard, within which a… — Marcus Sakey 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 like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
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