Adventure Quote by Michael Dirda

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the…

— N. K. Jemisin

I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.

— James Bobin

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it,…

— Florence Welch

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm…

— Jennifer Egan

“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical…

— John Bowen

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a…

— Colin Meloy

“I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real”

— Michael Connelly

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan