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Victorian scholar Michael Wheeler calls The Christian Year simply " the most popular volume of verse in the nineteenth century ".
Records do not say which play it was, but the Victorian scholar B. C. A.
His mother Gertrude Himmelfarb was a scholar of Victorian era literature.
According to Victorian scholar Linda Hughes, the emotional gulf between the state of his domestic affairs and the loss of his special friendship informs the reading of " Ulysses "— particularly its treatment of domesticity.
According to Victorian scholar Herbert Tucker, Tennyson ’ s characters " move " through time and space to be moved inwardly.
Its current prominence in Tennyson's oeuvre is the result of two trends, according to Tennyson scholar Matthew Rowlinson: the rise of formal English poetry studies in the late nineteenth century, and the Victorian effort to articulate a British culture that could be exported.
As Victorian scholar Daniel Karlin has noted, " That Haggard's style is frequently bathetic or clumsy cannot be denied ; but the matter is not so easily settled ".
Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.
Puget Sound's newest President is Ronald R. Thomas, affectionately called " Ron Thom " by many students, a scholar of Victorian literature, and the former vice-President of Trinity College.
* Lionel Giles ( 1875 – 1958 ), a Victorian scholar, translator and assistant curator
The term is associated with the Italian art critic and scholar Mario Praz, who used it to describe the suffocating atmosphere and clutter of interior design in the Victorian age.
J. Hillis Miller has been an important humanities and literature scholar specializing in Victorian and Modernist literature, with a keen interest in the ethics of reading and reading as a cultural act.
For Buffy studies scholar Rhonda Wilcox, The Gentlemen and their straitjacket-wearing minions, who clumsily flap, gyrate, and crouch as they move, are representative of class disparity and patriarchy: The Gentlemen, with their Victorian suits, move effortlessly to accomplish what they set out to do while their minions, whom Whedon called " footmen ", do the " dirty work ".
Victorian scholar Michael Wheeler calls The Christian Year simply " the most popular volume of verse in the nineteenth century ".
While they borrowed from Victorian Gothic conventions, the scholar Susan Griffin notes that Trollope wrote a Protestant critique of Catholicism that also expressed " a gendered set of possibilities for self-making ", which has been little recognized by scholars.
Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers handwritten drafts of a letter by the prestigious ( fictional ) Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, which leads him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance.
Brian C. Rosenberg, a scholar on Charles Dickens, has written numerous articles on the Victorian author and other subjects as well as two books, Mary Lee Settle ’ s Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom ( 1991 ) and Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens ( 1996 ).
The Australian scholar Sue Thomas referred to it as " an important informer ... of popular literary tastes in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods ".

Victorian and Patrick
At the time of his death, Prince Henry's full style was: His Royal Highness The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Grand Master and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Prior of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.
The Duke's current full style is Field Marshal His Royal Highness Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent, Earl of Saint Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, Royal Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Personal Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty.
On the London Road there is a Victorian mansion called Burleighfield House that was once the studio of the stained glass designer Patrick Reyntiens.
After a short wait dictated by the location of the previous train on the track, a Victorian Carnival character voiced by Neil Patrick Harris can be heard counting down from five before the train launches up the coaster's first hill.
The practice of collecting " souvenir " plates was popularized in the 19th century by Patrick Palmer-Thomas, a Dutch-English nobleman who wowed Victorian audiences with his public plate displays.
Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.
In 1981, he made Docteur Jekyll et les femmes ( Blood of Dr Jekyll ), a version of the Jekyll and Hyde story starring Udo Kier and Patrick Magee and depicting Jekyll's transformation as a violent rebellion against the Victorian morality.
Other players include former Melbourne & Victorian Captain Gary Lyon, Brisbane's Patrick Wearden, and North Melbourne rookie Brad Mangan.
, Simon Vinnicombe's Year 10, Joy Wilkinson's Fair which transferred to the West End ; Waterloo Day with Robert Lang ; Sarah Phelps ’ Modern Dance for Beginners, subsequently produced at the Soho Theatre ; Carolyn Scott-Jeffs ' comedy Out in the Garden, which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ; the London premiere of Larry Kramer's The Destiny of Me ; The Women ’ s War – an evening of original suffragette plays ; Steve Hennessy ’ s Lullabies of Broadmoor ( about the Finborough Road murder of 1922 ); the Victorian era comedy Masks and Faces ; Etta Jenks with Clarke Peters and Daniela Nardini ; The Gigli Concert with Niall Buggy, Catherine Cusack and Paul McGann which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams with Linda Bassett, Albert's Boy by James Graham starring Victor Spinetti, Peter Oswald ’ s Lucifer Saved with Mark Rylance, Blackwater Angel, the UK debut of Irish playwright Jim Nolan with Sean Campion, the first London revival for over seventy years of Loyalties by John Galsworthy, the world premiere of Plague Over England by Nicholas de Jongh which subsequently transferred to the West End at the Duchess Theatre, the first revival of Hangover Square, adapted by Fidelis Morgan from the novel by Patrick Hamilton, the UK premiere of the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon and a season of plays by William Saroyan.

Victorian and notes
" However, as Stocking notes, Tylor mainly concerned himself with describing and mapping the distribution of particular elements of culture, rather than with the larger function, and he generally seemed to assume a Victorian idea of progress rather than the idea of non-directional, multilineal cultural development proposed by later anthropologists.
Republished 1908 with extensive commentary and notes by Victorian imperialist F. N.
The Maryland Municipal League ’ s Website, “ The Association of Cities and Towns ”, notes that Centreville ’ s, “ istory is reflected in the diverse architecture seen along the streets of the town — elegant Victorian homes with their wrap-around porches, neo-classical public buildings, late-19th-century commercial rows, late-20th-century institutional and government structures, and all the variations and curiosities in between ”.< ref >" Centreville.
Fiona MacCarthy in a review of Burne-Jones's legacy notes that he was " a painter who, while quintessentially Victorian, leads us forward to the psychological and sexual introspection of the early twentieth century.
" Barry Cornwall's " songs have caught some notes from the Elizabethan and Cavalier lyrics, and blended them with others from the leading poets of his own time ; and his dramatic fragments show a similar infusion of the early Victorian spirit into pre-Restoration forms and cadences.
The title has been further analyzed in a paper by Traci Nagle, who notes firstly that such rhyming reduplication in English is generally either juvenile ( as in Humpty Dumpty or hokey-pokey ) or pejorative ( as in namby-pamby or mumbo-jumbo ) and that, further, Hobson and Jobson were stock characters in Victorian times, used to indicate a pair of yokels, clowns, or idiots ( compare Thomson and Thompson ).
Historian Avril Powell notes that none of the contemporary reviews commented on Muir's view that the Muslim society was stationary and incapable of reforms, perhaps because it was quietly assumed as indisputable by most of Muir's Victorian co-nationals.
The Burlington Magazine, however, added to this late Victorian tradition of market-based criticism new elements of historical research inspired by the leading academic German periodicals and thus created a formula that has remained almost intact to date: a combination of archival and formalist object-based art historical research juxtaposed to articles on collectors ’ items and private collections, enlivened with notes on current art news, exhibitions and sales.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson picks up on Duchamp's idea of inventing a " playful physics " and traces a quirky Victorian physics out of the notes and The Large Glass itself ; numerous mathematical and philosophical systems have been read out of ( or perhaps into ) its structures.
Fernicola notes, " Since 1916 was among the years that Americans were trying to break away from the rigidity and conservatism of the Victorian period, one comic depicted a risqué polka-dot bathing suit and advertised it as the secret weapon to keep sharks away from our swimmers.

Victorian and introduction
Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.
The earliest introduction of child removal to legislation is recorded in the Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869.
In 2010, Martin Pakula of the Labor Party, newly appointed State Minister for Public Transport announced that the rail link had been taken off the agenda with new freeway options being explored instead, however a change of government at the 2010 Victorian State Election to Liberals, saw policy for the introduction of the rail link return to the agenda, with a promise by the incoming Coalition government to undertake planning for its construction.
For the introduction of London Underground services, the Victorian station was completely demolished and was rebuilt to an Art Deco / Streamline Moderne design by Charles Holden.
It ’ s interesting to note that, during this late Victorian period, as the women ’ s suffrage movement was gaining momentum ( American women did not all win the right to vote until 1920 with the passing of the 19th Amendment ), the introduction of more tailored dresses and jackets coincided with women ’ s new sense of feminism.
In 1842 the railway came to Bishop's Stortford ; another introduction of the Victorian era was the opening of a hospital, in 1895.
The current station buildings date from the introduction of electric services in 1932 and of typical railway architectural style for the period, with little trace remaining of the station's Victorian origins.
The Victorian novel, Elizabethan drama, free verse and Modernism entered Punjabi literature through the introduction of British education during colonial rule.
Previously the larger and heavier prams, or perambulators had been used since their introduction in the Victorian era ; prams were also used for infants, often sitting up.
The requirement for locomotives that could be converted from to without major re-engineering led to the introduction of Mikado locomotives by the Victorian Railways ( VR ) in the 1920s.
His Backgrounds of English Victorian Literature is a very readable introduction to Victorian social and religious thought.
The line was built in the late Victorian era in response to increasing demand for transportation down Groudle Glen brought on by the introduction of the Manx Electric Railway.
She publicly supported the Kyoto Protocol, and oversaw the introduction of the Victorian Greenhouse Strategy, which introduced a range of reforms, such as mandated five-star efficiency standards for new houses, and which, according to the government, would save " about five to eight million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year ".
Since their introduction in the original Ravenloft module ( 1983 ) as fortune-tellers, they became a unifying element in the Ravenloft and Victorian Age Red Death campaign settings, which offer Gothic horror scenarios.
His writings include an introduction to Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance, published in 1879 and Churches about Queen Victoria Street, a portfolio published in 1871, Victorian art and originality for the British Architect published in 1887, and The architecture of Queen Victoria's reign for the Art Journal, published in 1887.
In her introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, a collection of essays representing some of the most current scholarly work on Elizabeth Gaskell, Matus ( 2007 ) stresses the writer ’ s growing stature in Victorian literary studies and how she drew on her gift as an innovative, versatile storyteller to address the rapid changes that occurred in her lifetime.
In their Victorian heyday, with the growth of urbanization and industrialization, they could be responsible for the promotion, organization, funding, building and management of everything from housing to water supplies, power in the form of both gas and electricity, to the introduction of electric trams ; almost any activity that the city fathers thought

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