“Don’t forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it.” With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a ...

Young people sometimes ask, "What books should I read to become a writer?" The short answer is always, "You should read everything -- the Bible, Perry Mason mysteries, poetry translated from the ...

There was once a time, writes the historian Therese Oneill, when 'parents were not enslaved to the whims of ultra-confident toddlers.” There was no counting to three, no half-hearted threats to ...

Source: Carl Rudolph Sohn (1845-1908) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian society of the late 1800s was obsessed with death. Queen Victoria set the tone for this after the death of ...