Singh Soin is primarily a writer of poetry and art criticism, but her language ... the science historian Alexis Rider and learned that Victorian-era Britain was abuzz with anxieties about the ...

The story of that dining room—called the Peacock Room and considered one of Whistler’s masterpieces—has long been rife with mythology ... of much gossip among Victorian society at the ...

“Don’t forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time ... ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons ...