This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Shortly before Easter in 1895, two English boys, aged 8 and 9, were wrenched from the security of a happy family life in Victorian London and sent abroad like fugitive criminals to forget their past, ...

Can Russian orchestras really play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? Can American symphonies really catch the spirit of Viennese waltzes? As music director of the Fort Worth Symphony, the American-trained ...

Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...

All those episodes of “Masterpiece Theater” have left an indelible image of the Victorian era as a time of civility and restraint. People of that time may have been hypocrites, but at least they were ...

Llandudno in North Wales has been a popular holiday destination for centuries, with its stunning beaches, historic pier and ...

With the addition of the Victorian Tea Room, slated to open soon at the Nelson Davis House at 522 E. Main St., Nacogdoches can add Victorian England to the city's list of historical destinations.

A staggering number of Brits either cannot work for health reasons or aren’t working hard enough compared with their peers elsewhere in Europe and America. The rise of worklessness among youth, ...

Lust is threatening to tear John Addington’s life apart. It haunts his dreams, governs his thoughts: “Lust, not as quickened heartbeat or lurch into dizzy possibility, but as lagging sickness, a ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...