Ive Always Wondered About This! Fascinating

I’ve always wondered about this! Fascinating

Love the random censorship in Victorian novels. Mr. ------- came down from -----shire in the summer of 18--. Who? Where? When? Wouldn't you like to know, book boy

I’m going through yet another Robin McKinley phase. Beauty was the first of her books I ever read and remains one of my top ten books of all time (which I do not say lightly!)

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me reading one of the most famous books ever written: do people know about this book. do they know.

A plea for some assistance

For a writing project (and also just because I love history) I’m trying to find what I think of as “nineteenth century ephemera”. Basically I want to read primary sources from either Regency or Victorian England. Letters, journals, yearbooks, photographs, but most especially things that capture the every day lives of women. I’m having a hard time navigating the vast web to find anything. Most of what I find requires me to be a member of the university that has the records. Does anyone have any tips at all? Thanks for your help!

A Mourning dove gets cozy, and settles in, to experience the sunset.

I really don't get why the Brontës get put in competition with Jane Austen so much. They weren't contemporaries. They didn't even write the same genre. This is the definition of pitting women against each other.