The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

Here's an encore of our 2008 homage to the delightfully diabolical "Gashlycrumb Tinies," Edward Gorey's famed spoof on Victorian alphabet primers. Gorey's collection of couplets, which he wrote and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines the widespread practice of oath-taking among England's professional classes and the anxieties such ritual performances ...

Victorian Periodicals Review publishes articles and reviews about the history of nineteenth-century British periodicals that reflect interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the ways in which ...

STUDENTS learning Punjabi through the Victorian School of Languages took to the stage last week to showcase what they’ve ...