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To: MacMattico

Jane Austen died 20 years before Queen Victoria’s reign.


17 posted on 02/09/2012 11:05:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I know but I still think of that whole time period as Victorian in nature, with the literature, science and new discoveries that came about 30 years before until 10 years after Queen Victoria. And Arsenic was a drug of choice for many artists, including writers.


18 posted on 02/09/2012 11:17:57 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: nickcarraway
Austen died two years before Victoria was born, at 2am it's all Victorian to me! goodnight everyone!
19 posted on 02/09/2012 11:22:20 PM PST by MacMattico
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