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“How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“One day in the country was worth a month in town and better than Christmas, her birthday, or even Papa saying she was like the moon risen at the full.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite Victorian London 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!”

Society Secrets Family Life Secrecy Detectives Families Detection Mysteries Gentility Victorian Society Hidden Shame Hidden Guilt

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“I might set at the window in that tower there my chest covered in diamonds, and gaze over the hills, remembering my lost love. A romantic picture, but utterly stupid. I should be bored after an hour.”

Love Society Victorian Society Neo Victorian Society Expectations

Book:The Corset

Source: The Corset

“Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art.”

Art Victorian Era Society Views Victorian Society Expectations From Your Society Neo Victorian

Book:The Corset

Source: The Corset

“And she is aware too how very convenient it is to have found someone she wants to marry just at the moment in her life when getting married is expected of her. It is a relief not to have to marry someone for the sake of it, or to have to make a stand and marry nobody at all.”

Marriage Victorian Society

Book:Briefly, A Delicious Life

Source: Briefly, A Delicious Life