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The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and… — Colm Toibin
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist… — John Irving
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than… — Laurie R. King
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the… — Charles Palliser
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor. — Charles Palliser
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very… — Eleanor Catton
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of… — Eleanor Catton
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the… — Robert Gottlieb
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did… — Tom Paulin
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went… — Sarah Pinborough
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness. — Marion Bailey
Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes… — Edward Frederic Benson
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker… — Paul Di Filippo
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the… — Richard Flanagan
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about… — Simon Callow
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which… — Martin Cruz Smith
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold. — Philippa Gregory
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian. — Alicia Witt
I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and… — Evanescence

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