As Thomas Hood wrote in a letter to the Manchester Athenaeum of July 1843:
“At the very least my books kept me aloof from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloons, with their degrading orgies.”
Here too there will be no ring, dog-pit or tavern. Not even an orgy. The idea instead is to spend an idle minute or two flicking through some snaphots of Victorian writers, some of whom you will have heard of, some perhaps not. Choose an album from below:
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Victorian Lines 