Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Victorian Era’
Photo by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.
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By Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803–1889), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
When violinist Joseph Joachim proposed a toast to the world’s greatest composer, he was cut off in mid flow.
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Composer Johannes Brahms disliked the adulation sometimes heaped on him by fans, and found quite imaginative ways to avoid it.
By Lluïsa Vidal (1876–1918), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford recalls the very different receptions given by British and German audiences to a little bit of Brahms.
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Douglas Jardine came up with a plan to deprive the watching public of one of the finest sights in all sport.
By James Gillray (1756-1815), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the demand for hard evidence as a peculiarly English trait.