You can’t keep Anonymous down ... Men wrote some books “by a lady,” and conversely the Victorian-era cases of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and the Bell brothers -- that is, the Bronte ...

Parts of the novel, to be sure, no longer speak to us except as period pieces. The Victorian salons and courtship rituals seem quaint, the nakedness of the party machinations dated. But in other ...

Anonymous personal advertisements made up ... and over 25 million words from a corpus of 220 Victorian novels from 1800 to 1920. Both datasets are available for anyone to explore and download ...

Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths ...

Though a number of her novels turn on Austen-style courtship plots, they do not share Austen’s wit and economy. Her style can seem stodgily Victorian, her tone overly earnest, melodramatic ...

Anonymous personal advertisements made up the Agony Column ... and over 25 million words from a corpus of 220 Victorian novels from 1800 to 1920. Both datasets are available for anyone to explore and ...