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Victorian Slang!
As I was browsing over many an Internet page, I came across a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore – Victorian Slang! Many fans of author Georgette Heyer will recall with fondness her characters’ delightful use of Regency-era slang, but I haven’t found too many resources dedicated to the particular lingo of the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century. So it was with great pleasure that I began to read J. Redding Ware’s “Passing English of the Victorian Era” http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909/ Here are some of the cool slang words that this intrepid lexicographer collected: Adam and Eve’s togs – Naked Adam’s Ale – Water Back-hairing – Female fighting, in which a woman had…
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SHOWCASE: Victorian Movies and TV Shows
This is the first installment of the Showcase of Victorian Movies and TV Shows. Over the years, there has been an abundance of movies, miniseries and TV shows that have been set in England during the Victorian era. Original fiction as well as the works of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, the Bronte sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell have all been presented on the large and small screen. So what shows can you seek out for your Victorian inspiration? Today, we’ll discuss the BBC’s 2004 miniseries, “North and South,” starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe. A four-part series, with each episode lasting about 1 hour. Based on the novel by Elizabet Gaskell,…
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Hello and welcome to my blog!
Why have I chosen to start this blog? Because I’d like you to join me on a visit to Kensington, London, during the Victorian era. This is where the sleuth of my new cozy mystery series, eighteen-year-old Lucy Turner, lives with her widowed mother Herbertina (“Hebe”) Compton Turner. As the story starts, Lucy is in love with a newly-minted barrister named William Schwenk Gilbert. He’s tall, blond, handsome, and unfortunately thinks of her only as the young girl who lives down the street from his parents’ house. If his name sounds familiar to you, you’re right – he is William S. Gilbert, who will later achieve fame as half of…
