Sentences with phrase «about victorian»

For more photos and information about the Victorian Farmhouse and converted barn, check the listing.

Each day from December 1 to December 24, a new Christmas craft tutorial, a Christmas recipe or a post about Victorian Christmas customs awaits you on my blog.

There is something sophisticated and classy about Victorian style.

More information about the Victorian Apology and state - funded services in Victoria can be found on the Department of Health and Human Services website.

(Read this story about Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation CEO Jill Gallagher decision to quit smoking).

• Previously in this series about Victorian justice concerns: Prison is not the answer.

Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy open up about their Victorian «bromance», gender pay gap and science

And now there's a Victorian revival, everybody is writing about the Victorian period.

It's easy to be sceptical about Victorian monumentalism these days — and how it still seems to dictate the tone of many public and civic spaces in the United Kingdom.

Certainly, on the rare occasions that he did try to write — a piece about the Victorian painter of fairies and other supernatural phenomena Richard Dadd which he penned for Tate magazine, he proved himself to be an articulate and insightful commentator.

Jessica Harvey's work exhumes the remnants of a failed utopian arts community in upstate New York, in order to pose poetic considerations about Victorian spirituality, community mythology, and madness.

One of the reasons that we know so much about the Victorian era is that they wrote so damn much.

I spent hours in libraries reading about Victorian racetracks and visiting obscure museums which have authentic ladies» side saddles.

Hank is a great interviewer (so check out his site), and I was particularly happy that we not only got to talk about my Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series but that I was also able to introduce his listeners to the history behind the Paradisi Chronicles — the open source science fiction universe I have been working on with six other authors for the past year.

There's a great article on Jezebel about Victorian birth control, and another one in National Geographic that mentions the history of lemon juice as a spermicide.

The Victorian Web This site, created by George P. Landow, professor of English and art history at Brown University, includes information about the Victorian Age's history, sociology, art, religion, economy, and more.

You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye - catching display about Victorian characters.

A4 pdf file incorporating basic facts and pictures about Victorian Britain.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

I'd describe it as a cross between the movie Seven, because of the whodunnit serial killer element, and the Pinero play Trelawney of the «Wells», about Victorian actors and life behind the scenes.

This tale of seduction and double - cross fits so well with the Korean - Japanese conflicts of World War II that you'd never guess it was adapted from a novel about Victorian - era Britain.

During my research I came across this book about Victorian - era working conditions for women who were making these fantastic gowns.

The period drama about Victorian author Charles Dickens»...

How do you feel about the Victorian trend with all its feminine flourishes?

There's something to be said about this Victorian - meets - modern day look actress Gala Gordon is sporting and we certainly will be adding these trends to our own daily wardrobe.

I have always had a thing about Victorian - Inspired clothing.

When we talk about the Victorian - Inspired Clothing Trend, what is the first thing that pops into your head?

In the latest issue of Company High Street Edit, which came out last week, I have the pleasure of sharing with you my feature in an editorial about Victorian - inspired outfits for the party season.

If you ever need me to come do a talk to the kids about Victorian era I would be happy to.

Learn about Victorian holiday traditions during Cary's annual Heart of the Holidays festivities Dec. 2, and enjoy horse - drawn carriage rides at the Page - Walker Arts and History Center, a historic 1868 hotel, 4 - 6 p.m..

Later still, the Christian response to 19th - century rationalism and the Enlightenment found a champion in Blessed John Henry Newman, who thought broadly, incisively and generously about Victorian culture.

Are you teaching your class about the Victorians?

For example, we know a lot about the Victorians from their literature.

Visiting artists in their homes and studios, and having many — often bizarre — conversations about the Victorians and discovering where artists get their inspiration.

I make no moral judgements about Victorians, as easy as that may be to do.)

Not exact matches

Cedar Woods Victorian state manager Nathan Blackburne said the company was excited about introducing a Cedar Woods master - planned development to Melbourne's fast growing northern corridor.»

Both sum up the patristic criticisms of sport, both talk about Puritanism, both highlight the role of Victorian Muscular Christianity in the reconciliation of religion and sport.

«When one gives up the Christian faith,» said Nietzsche about those «English flatheads,» the Victorians, «one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet.»

Robert Ellis's «The Games People Play and Lincoln Harvey's «A Brief Theology of Sport» both sum up the patristic criticisms of sport, both talk about Puritanism, both highlight the role of Victorian Muscular Christianity in the reconciliation of religion and sport.

In contrast to the left - over Victorian attitudes and feelings about sex still to be noted among some individuals and communities (attitudes toward sex education, for example), are the increasingly mechanized and exploitative and depersonalizing attitudes toward sex which are prevalent in our society.

Reading this dummy's posts about s3x always makes me think of the set of Victorian «instructional» texts I found in my grandmother's attic: «What a Young Girl Ought to Know».

Although Darwin did not see any evidence for design in nature, we should keep in mind that any doubts Darwin may have had about religion were due to his reactions to the prevailing theology of providential design that dominated the culture of nineteenth - century Victorian England.

In a recent study» of the evangelical impact on the Victorians titled The Call to Seriousness, Ian Bradley contends that the decline of evangelicalism into narrow bigotry may be dated from about 1860 and correlated with the rise of a fascination with prophecy and a more literalistic use of the Scripture.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

Many people continue to think about sexuality, family, and church in ways that took shape in the Victorian era, a time of empire.

On her desk was a stack of business cards, a list of journals in which (I imagine) she hoped to publish, folders with topics to be written about» parable, Victorian religion, and so on.

The programmatic structure in most congregations still reflects Victorian assumptions about the role of Christian parents in the faith formation of children.

It is not uncommon to find Victorian dualisms read into a biblical text about the family or sexual ethics.

Until pastors become aware of the ways in which the dualisms of the Victorian family ethos have been institutionalized in the church, confusion about their own role as spiritual leaders in a congregation will continue.

The «family pew ethos» institutionalized in late - Victorian Protestant spirituality depended on an unquestioned belief that Christian faith is most powerfully nurtured in the Christian home, while knowledge about the Bible is best learned at church.