Victorian

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A Proverbial Education? Mottos in May Morris's The Homestead and the Forest cot quilt and Mavor's English Spelling Book by Alison Fogg	This article explores May Morris’s 1890 cot quilt, The Homestead and the Forest, as a personal artefact representing her socialist...	Socialism, Spelling, Victorian	view
Religion and Reality: Victorian society as seen through art and poetry by Joyce Markham	Abstract: Christianity was an essential part of life for Victorians in all strata of society. The numbers and sizes of Victorian churches that can...	19th century, Victorian, Holman Hunt, Tractarian, Algernon Charles Swinburne	view
Assignment Questions for Furnishings and Interiors 1850 to the Present Day	Sample assignment questions for Furnishings and Interiors 1850 to the Present Day.	Assignment, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Nineteenth-century, Twentieth-century, Victorian	view
Staging Cinderellas: Examining nineteenth-century ideas of the Victorian ballet girl in Miss Clara Webster and Jane Eyre by Fiona Bradbury	This article examines nineteenth-century ideas of Victorian ballet-girls, exploring these in nineteenth-century art and literature....	Ballet, Victorian	view
A chivalric knight and deep sea dredging; or, ‘the everlasting thunder of the deep’ by Nicholas Pritchard	For Britons in the mid- to late nineteenth century the deep sea was starting to take a hold on the imagination. The successful...	Victorian	view
Two Women of Mind and Purpose: George Cruickshank’s My Wife is a Woman of Mind and Amelia B. Edwards’ The Travelling Adventures of Mrs Roliston by Dona M. Cady	Abstract: The changing social agency of Victorian British women was often reflected through text and art. The pen and ink work of two artists --...	19th century, George Cruickshank, Amelia B. Edwards, satire, Victorian	view
Suggested reading on 19th century furniture design	Suggested reading on 19th century furniture design	Nineteenth-century, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Designers, Victorian	view
more key dates!	from the mid Victorian period	Nineteenth century, Queen Victoria, Victorian, Victorian England, 19th century	view
Victorian Appropriation of Medieval Eucharistic Symbolism: A comparative analysis of St. Giles Cathedral and Goblin Market by Katerina Kern	This article considers the manner in which ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti and St. Giles Cathedral by Augustus Pugin appropriate...	Victorian, 19th century, Christina Rossetti, Augustus Pugin, St Giles Cathedral, Medieval, religious symbolism	view
Forward to the Past: The Eglinton tournament and chivalry in the Age of Steam by Nigel Hankin	This article looks at the appeal that a re-imagined medieval past had in early Victorian England, epitomised by the enormous interest...	railways, Victorian, pottery	view

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