"Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Nov 2019 3:29 p.m. PST |
… the Victorians were ‘happy'. "The 1880s was Britain's most optimistic decade, an October 2019 study has concluded. Yet the most familiar images of Victorian life are bleak indeed. Writing in the Christmas 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine, Rosalind Crone revealed five surprising truths about the experiences of the urban poor in 19th-century Britain… The most familiar images of Victorian life are bleak indeed: impoverished children working long hours in factories and mines; blankets of smog suspended above overcrowded cities; frightening workhouses run by cruel governors; violent criminals lurking in the shadows. In black-and-white photos of the period, people both high and low-born are invariably unsmiling – a miserable bunch, surely?…."
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Nick Stern  | 13 Nov 2019 9:44 p.m. PST |
One of my favorite books is the autobiography of E. H. Shepard, born in 1879. He illustrated both Wind in the Willows and Winnie the Pooh. He describes a warm, happy Victorian lower middle class childhood, very much at odds with the dark, grim vision many of us have of Victorian life. |
| Tango01 | 14 Nov 2019 12:30 p.m. PST |
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