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Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...
Her new book carries us from the moment chilly Victorians ... and approaches out for myself,” she writes in “How to Be a Victorian.” This sounds straightforward enough but hardly hints ...
Deanna Raybourn takes us back to Victorian times in “Sinister Revenge,” the latest novel in her Veronica Speedwell series. Speedwell, a scientist, lepidopterist or butterfly collector, and ...
She was the very embodiment of the Victorian ideology of a woman's place being in the home. One of the most famous books of the Victorian age is The Book of Household Management. With a History of ...
Chemists from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, have also been studying Victorian books from that university's library collection in order to identify and quantify levels of poisonous ...
The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone is leading the project.
According to a new novel, whose central character revives the Victorian trend for bestowing ... the floral bouquet what Joanne Harris's 1999 book, Chocolat, did for cocoa when it is published ...