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"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'.


Out of the Minerva Press came Disraeli, out of the horseplay of ...

Out of the Minerva Press came Disraeli, out of the horseplay of sentimental Cockneys, Dickens.

It is only necessary to set these names down in order to realize what potent agencies of dissolution were working in the early Victorian years. English society was poised on a double paradox which its critics, within and without, called hypocrisy.

Its practical ideals were at odds with its religious professions, and its religious belief was at issue with its intelligence.

We, for example, should probably count an employer who kept children of nine working nine hours

a day in a temperature of

98 degrees as, at least, a very stupid man.

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If he went farther and insisted that, when they wished to lift ...

If he went farther and insisted that, when they wished to lift up their hearts in song, it must not be in carnal ditties like 'A

Cheap labour meant high profits; respectable workpeople meant good work.' It could ...

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