Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 16, 2009, 5:23 pm
John Ruskin ponders penguins. . . John Keats borrows a book from the journalist Thomas Alsager. . . An 1849 court case shapes current discussions about British libel law. . . Jeannette Winterson re...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 15, 2009, 8:18 am
Some of Jack the Ripper's victims appear to have been living respectable domestic lives just a few years before their murders, according to census records that went online today. The company find...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 14, 2009, 9:58 pm
Here's the trailer (below) for the upcoming film Creation, which is based on the book Annie's Box by Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson Randal Keynes and shot in part at Down House, the...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 13, 2009, 8:34 pm
The Victorians adored dogs, which were by far the most popular domestic pet of the era, and perhaps no breed was more beloved than the Newfoundland, a frequent subject of artists such as Sir Edwin Lan...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 12, 2009, 10:57 pm
The film The Young Victoria, which tells the story of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, her first shaky steps as monarch, and the courtship that led to one of the most famous romances of a...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Sep 12, 2009, 6:55 pm
To coincide with the release of A. E. Moorat's Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter, a "blood-curdling and hilarious historical zombie mash-up novel" and "alternative history . . . packed full of blood, g...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Aug 6, 2009, 8:38 pm
"...Take it and come to the Isle of Wight: Where, far from the noise of smoke and town, I watch the twilight falling brown All around a careless ordered garden, Close to the ridge of a noble down. Y...
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Kristan T. posted an article on The Victorian Peeper - Jul 11, 2009, 8:19 am
An excellent new website created by Parliament commemorates the 150th anniversary of its famous Clock Tower, Great Clock, and Great Bell ("Big Ben"). Construction on the clock tower began in Septembe...
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