Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name implies, "1776" tells the story of a bygone day. When we confide to you that one of the characters is George Washington, you may surmise than the scene is not laid in Victorian England, nor on the conventional. Island Far Away, where a group of modern Harvard undergraduates and Back Bay debutantes in the past have sung topical songs and fallen in love under a nitrogen moon...
English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
...picking writers who will survive the memories of their own brief generation. There is one writer alive today, however, in whose case the game loses all its uncertainty and danger. Were it only for the remarkable span of his literary life, Thomas Hardy will be a landmark. The Victorian ago, the decadence of the nineties, the war and its subsequent unsettled period have passed by Thomas Hardy and his most recent book, published a few months ago, has enough recent writing in it to prove his imperturbability. Professor Lowes will spend an hour on this near-century of literary activity...
...explanation of the great vogue of these periodicals is simple enough. The relaxation and reaction from prurient Victorian prudery has extended to the masses. The post-war restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work...
...Stanton, equipped with a beard at least two feet long and portrayed with a stock "old man's shuffle" suitable to street mendicants; 3) "Hook" (Drinkwater's fictitious cabinet member), played as the chief character; browbeating the diletant President, transfixing him with the reproving stare of a Victorian "stage father...