Word: victorianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delegated loose authority over his manuscripts to several confidants, to speed up both the process of getting into print and the payment of his royalties. But editors on both sides of the Atlantic were perturbed by certain aspects of The Beach. Changes were made by several hands to protect Victorian readers from tropical immoralities. When Stevenson finally saw the serialized version in a London newspaper, he complained of "the slashed and gaping ruins" of what he had written...
Opening with the American premiere of Swedish Composer Lars Johan Werle's opera Animalen, among other events, the multipurpose hall is the new home of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera and the Schubert Club, a local recital sponsor. In appearance, it recalls a Victorian men's club, with a generous use of mahogany and brass, both in the spacious lobbies and within its two auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most...
...already perfect when we met, and so was she." If anyone has the temerity to address him as Mr. Manners, says Dr. Martin, "I correct them immediately. I tell them it's Lord Manners, not Mr. Manners." (The name Miss Manners derives from a figure in Victorian English folklore who was originally called Lady Manners. She was conjured up so that when children tried to gobble all the food on the table, they could be ordered to leave a little bit on the plate "for Lady Manners...
Having left the Post to live by syndication in 1982, Martin now works alone in an antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian Vista. Martin devotes one day a week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive...
Charles Ludlam is at it again. His Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the Greenwich Village troupe that on a shoestring has rejuvenated the manly art of comic burlesque, now turns for its inspiration to the penny dreadful, a sensational form of fiction that nourished in Victorian Britain...