What Victorian Individuals Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself

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Greater than 120 years after the top of the Vic­to­ri­an period, we’d assume that we retain a kind of accu­fee cul­tur­al mem­o­ry of the Vic­to­ri­ans them­selves: of their social mores, their aes­thet­ic sen­si­bil­i­ties, their ambi­tions nice and small, their many and var­ied hang-ups. Among the most vivid rep­re­sen­ta­tions of those qual­i­ties have come right down…

The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77)

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Because the Vic­to­ri­an period, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for gen­er­a­tion upon gen­er­a­tion within the Eng­lish-speak­ing world, the sort of poem that one sim­ply is aware of, whether or not one remem­bers actu­al­ly hav­ing learn it or not. As with most such works that seep so per­ma­nent­ly into the cul­ture, it…