TheVictorians

"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


Feeling veered when the Empire had fallen, and France at bay began ...

Feeling veered when the Empire had fallen, and France at bay began to show her natural bravery, the victorious Prussian his native brutality.

Our public attitude, unruffled by the abuse discharged on us by both the combatants, remained entirely correct.

But the Prussians had reached the Channel.

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There was no reason, yet, to suppose they would wish to cross ...

There was no reason, yet, to suppose they would wish to cross it, but six months before there had been no reason to suppose they would fall on France.

See the scathing inscription on the memorial in St. Jordan's, and Chesney's ...