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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago

John Van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker

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This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace...

Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lisa Kasmer

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Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores...

Bradshaw's Railway Handbook, 1866: v. 1: London and Its Environs (Kent, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Devon, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Wight)

George Bradshaw

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Bradshaw's Railway Handbook was originally published in 1866 under the title Bradshaw's Handbook for...

British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914

Paul A. Elliott

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Greening the Victorian Urban WorldWhether we consider the great London Planes which are now the...

Bird (1704 KP) rated Taboo - Season 1 in TV

Apr 27, 2017

Pre-Victorian London has never looked so beautifully squalid! (4 more)

Tom Hardy unsurprisingly excels in the powerful lead role of a violent low-lifer

Genuinely fascinating insight into the broad history of the time

Strong performances all-round

An almost monochrome visual that transforms you to a dark place you're glad you can leave at the end of each episode!

A bit of a slow burner - you don't mind leaving the room for a few minutes knowing you probably wont miss that much (1 more)

A few (undeliberate?) loose ends, but maybe saved for Season 2?

Gloomy And Brutal With A Dash Of Sweeney Todd

Kudos

graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated A Spy in the House (The Agency, #1) in Books

Feb 15, 2019

In the words of Y. S. Lee:
<blockquote>"Women's choices were grim in those days, even for the clever. If a top secret women's detective agency existed in Victorian England, it left no evidence--just as well, since that would cast serious doubt on its competence. The Agency is a totally unrealistic, completely fictitious antidote to the fate that would otherwise swallow a girl like Mary Quinn."</blockquote>

An easy and interesting read, with an intriguing protagonist in Mary Quinn. The plot and characters easily kept my attention and I look forward to the others in the series.