The Victorians by Jeremy Paxman

Author:Jeremy Paxman [Paxman, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409070108
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

fn1 Virginia Woolf thought it ought to be one of the ambitions of the female writer to kill the Angel in the House. In fact, Patmore was referring to love, rather than the woman’s role. No matter, the term stuck.

fn2 These predominantly male portrayals of women frequently brought frustration in their wake. See the sonnet ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ by Christina Rossetti – the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti – which dissects the Pre-Raphaelite conception of women as passive and objectified.

fn3 The present theory is that it may have been that Ruskin was ignorant of, and disgusted by, menstruation. Pubic hair is, of course, a much better story for making the point about the malign influence of classical art.

fn4 The story derives from the Greek historian Herodotus who described how ‘the greatest beauty was put up first and knocked down to the highest bidder: then the next in order of comeliness – and so on.’ Long depicts the would-be brides in order of ascending beauty but ingeniously covers the faces of the first and last girls. See George C. Swayne, The History of Herodotus (London, 1870).

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