Victorian England

I like Rathbone’s Holmes – upright, English, ascetic, with a hint of paralyzing neuroses kept at bay with steely resolve – but that has much to do with the idea of Victorian England, the calm and decent place.

The Bleat. 2010

But too often they are uninterested in the ways in which individual freedoms were constrained in the service of democracy, and how, despite its place as the “capital of liberty,” America developed a national culture that was more sexually restrained and work obsessed than Victorian England.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

This question was always in the back of my mind during the seven years I immersed myself in researching the extremes that typified Victorian England.

Deborah Swiss: Mid-life Mothers Parent the Planet Deborah Swiss 2011

It opens in Victorian England -- with every cruelty and affectation in place.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Catch Me If You Can, Peter and the Starcatcher, Urge For Going Fern Siegel 2011

This question was always in the back of my mind during the seven years I immersed myself in researching the extremes that typified Victorian England.

Deborah Swiss: Mid-life Mothers Parent the Planet Deborah Swiss 2011

This question was always in the back of my mind during the seven years I immersed myself in researching the extremes that typified Victorian England.

Deborah Swiss: Mid-life Mothers Parent the Planet Deborah Swiss 2011

It opens in Victorian England -- with every cruelty and affectation in place.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Catch Me If You Can, Peter and the Starcatcher, Urge For Going Fern Siegel 2011

In Victorian England, where sacred oratorios were preferred to what it viewed as an exotic Italian import best sung in that language, Sullivan completed only one grand opera, "Ivanhoe" 1891.

Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In Victorian England, supposedly uniform in its prim rectitude, Robert Louis Stevenson produced a remarkably sympathetic account of a man's descent into mindless gratification and depravity.

Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century Nicholas Frankel 2011

JACK THE RIPPER THROUGH A WIDER LENS Halloween comes early to Philadelphia's Drexel University: Conferees will take a stab at Victorian England's view of insanity, the policing of the 1888 London crimes and other topics.

Ideas Calendar: Oct. 29-Nov. 4 2011