A Victorian Whisper
. . . This site is dedicated to all those who generously preserve the past for our future generations. It is my hope that you will be able to document the lives of your Victorian ancestors and enjoy getting to know them from a historical perspective. To see their photos and be able to know what they did for a living, who their children were and how many they had, what the world around them must have looked like, and perhaps even what kind of things they might have enjoyed. Please feel free to use the art on this site for your personal albums, scrapbooks, and non-commercial web sites/pages. If you use any of these images on your web site/page, please give me credit and a link back to your favorite page on this site. Each image comes from my personal archives of U.S. Victorian publications and postcards. (I have included a circa year on each piece of art so that you will have a better idea in which decade to place it.) Thanks for visiting and enjoy!
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A delightful look back at the advice and expressions of the Victorian Era.
The Art of Homemaking - Margaret E. Sangster, Copyright 1898
 | "Correspondence forms an important part of our modern life. We take less time for letter-writing than people did formerly, and sometimes it seems as if the old leisurely epistle postage was a matter of very great moment and a letter cost anywhere from six to twenty-five cents, also when its conveyance was a matter of much labor on the part of those who carried it, one relay of horses after another being harnessed to the mail-coach, sometimes when an armed escort was necessary to convey it through a hostile country, or one infested with banditti, it seemed hardly worth a person's while to sit down and dash off a hurried missive. People somehow had more time in past days than there seems to be now. Consequently, we still find great enjoyment in the long letters which were written by people a hundred years ago, though we do not ourselves indulge our taste in correspondence in just the same say." |
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