Her upbringing, in a Catholic family whose wealth came from property interests, was almost Victorian: wet-nursed as a baby, she was sent to a housekeeper in the country and then to a convent boarding school, aged three.
This big melodramatic novel is almost a parody of the Victorian novel, with its complex plot revolving around the traditional themes of disinheritance and usurpation.
The restaurant's exterior – an unlovely conservatory on the front of a late-Victorian cottage – is almost irrelevant: people come here for the pies.
"He's almost a Victorian toy, but the horse is more an Ikea version".
With her Victorian settings and a writing style that is almost perpetually serene, Clarke is often compared by critics to Jane Austen.
In a country that prides itself on free healthcare, DIY dentistry is an almost Victorian notion of hardship.
BOOKS lead about the many books on getting fired, and about how to fire people... What all these books have in common, apart from a predilection for the kind of subtitle that makes a reader want to go and lie down, is an almost Victorian richness of euphemism.
By John Lanchester The New Yorker, August 9, 1999 P. 78 BOOKS lead about the many books on getting fired, and about how to fire people... What all these books have in common, apart from a predilection for the kind of subtitle that makes a reader want to go and lie down, is an almost Victorian richness of euphemism.
But I've learned that the biggest investment in the Midland Mainline since the Victorians built it was almost scuppered.
