It’s impossible to exaggerate the value of land to an Irishman. Or a Jew, a Palestinian, or any of the immigrant millions who have long equated land with freedom. Owning a deed means owning a ...

The morality tale “A Christmas Carol” might be as much as most Americans know about the Victorian era. But for a devoted group of Victorian interpreters, this is the time of year when their hobby ...

Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, was the first and certainly one of the most influential of twentieth-century attacks on Victorian morality. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, ...

SO SURGEON General Joycelyn Elders thinks that the American people are sexually repressed because of their “Victorian morality.” I would say to Elders that people with Victorian morality are not ...

When Lytton Strachey was asked to propose a toast to his Eminent Victorians, he quoted an eminent Victorian biographer: “When I hear men called ‘judicious’ I suspect them; but when I hear them called ...

Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote: ...

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The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including wealth ...

Ben White receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council for research into law, policy and practice relating to end-of-life care. Lindy ...

India’s inclusive culture accepting of same-sex love was stifled by the imposition of Victorian morality under British colonialism, according to the chief justice of the country’s Supreme Court. The ...