Head Quote by Sylvia Plath

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

— Sal Khan

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli

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

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the…

— Jane Austen

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe,…

— Philip Reeve

British period drama is always seen as kind of perfect and beautiful and lovely, but I don't think subcultures have been shone a light…

— Annabelle Wallis

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

— Simon Heffer

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

— Donna Tartt

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

— Peter Webber

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell