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The first of the astilbe species were brought from the Orient in the early twentieth century by British plant enthusiasts, Robert Fortune and Carl Peter Thurgen. Astilbes were quite popualr among English Victorians as an indoor potted plant, ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London (a New York Times notable book), Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and others. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Sarah Rutherford
The Victorian lunatic asylum has a special place in history. Dreaded and reviled by many, these nineteenth-century buildings provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, ... [... more]
Random House |
What the Victorians Did for Us
 From Amazon.co.uk: It's tempting to think that the high-tech world we live in today was built in the 20th century. But as What the Victorians Did for Us establishes, the groundwork was laid by "the speed merchants, inventors, pioneers and products& [... more]
CDN$37.95
Amazon CA |
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination - Kate Flint.: A welcome study ! Offering interesting reading for academics and those who have a general passion for the period. This book is well referenced and sourced - pulling together the thoughts and [... more]
CDN$110.95
Amazon CA |
What the Victorians Did for Us
From Amazon.co.uk: It's tempting to think that the high-tech world we live in today was built in the 20th century. But as What the Victorians Did for Us establishes, the groundwork was laid by "the speed merchants, inventors, pioneers and products& [... more]
CDN$34.95
Amazon CA |
Inventing The Victorians
From Amazon.co.uk: Matthew Sweet's Inventing the Victorians sets out to rescue the Victorians from their prudish and stuffy reputation. A century after Queen Victoria's death there is a scramble to re-evaluate and explode many of the myths attached to [... more]
CDN$22.00
Amazon CA |
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
a very great disappointment!: After reading and thoroughly enjoying "The Victorians" I was anxious to read this book. What an incredible disappointment! The author seems intend on riding his hobby horse of how terrible the establishment was and [... more]
CDN$18.75
Amazon CA |
Are Annuals Outdated?
There must have been some good reason for those Victorians to have been mad for annuals! Annuals create instant color and texture -- but why settle for the ordinary! The Victorians loved annuals. Equipped with greenhouses and lots of live-in ... [... more]
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The Victorians
From Amazon.co.uk: AN Wilson's The Victorians is the longest and liveliest of the books which have appeared in the wake of the centenary of Victoria's death. As one might expect, Wilson, Evening Standard columnist, novelist, and polemical biographer, has [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
The New Victorians
halfway there: Rene Denfeld's critique of feminism is right on. Her analysis of Diana Russell and Mary Koss's inflated rape statistics is solid, she offers a strong libertarian argument against the censorship of pornography championed by Catherine [... more]
CDN$24.99
Amazon CA |
Eminent Victorians
From Amazon.com: The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to [... more]
CDN$13.95
Amazon CA |
