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During the much of the Victorian Era, many hospitals in London had operating theaters, where people could buy a ticket to watch operations. The spectacle could be gruesome, as anesthesia was not used until 1847. The images provided show the…

There are two side by side images of a couple eating dinner at their table when all a sudden the ghost of Jim Stubbs, the former occupant of the house, appears to them. This image is an example of the Victorians using new technology to create new…

For Spring Break 2019, I went to London for 5 days where I was able to go to the Tower of London which guards the Crown Jewels. In class, we briefly spoke about the Koh-I-Noor diamond when having to read The Illustrated London News (September, 8,…

One of the common forms of fortune telling from Victorian England was cartomancy, involving the assignment of emotions or conditions to card values. Cards would be drawn for customers or picked randomly by them. There were various techniques of card…

Jules Goodman made six illustrations for Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman," the headnote being an abstract piece picturing Ella, the protagonist, and the poet character Robert Trewe, whom she falls in love with despite not formally meeting. On…

Jeffries acknowledges the dangers of having a color-blind employee on the railroad, whether as a conductor or signalman. Reds, greens, or yellows will appear on signals not intended for those colors depending on an employees type of color blindness,…

This article has a paragraph that describes a crime that a man was convicted of that was very similar to what Lord Arthur Savile’s first attempted to kill his elderly relative. In which a man was sentence to death after attempted to kill a lady…

Queen Victoria's biography was published with the author stated as, "Mrs. Oliphant." It's easy to infer that this was in fact Margaret Oliphant, with the Queen being a vocal fan of her work. At the conclusion of the biography, in between it and the…

Oliphant moved to Windsor in 1866 after the death of her last daughter. Her sons were there studying; she joined them to aid in their upbringing. She was also housing her brother and his children at the time. The three men in the picture are…