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Victorians Lensography featuring three less well known writers

George Burgess (1829-1906) and Mary Sewell (1797-1884) were British writers and Fanny Fern (1811-1872) a 19th century American writer, each with their own writing niche. This Lensography introduces each of these writers and provides background information for further reading on the Victorian era culture that they lived in. So read on and enjoy.

Three Victorian Era Authors

In Britain and America

1. George Burgess (1829-1905) - who lived in America for many years when he was young became a Phrenologist and ran his profession in the Bristol Arcades for forty years from 1861 to 1901. He said he left school a poor scholar but he went on to publish at least two books on phrenology, saved a scrapbook of over 500 British and American newspaper articles, wrote his life history in his diary and gave a Victorian prospective on life in volumes of other person writings.

2. Mary Sewell (1797-1884) - mother of Anna Sewell who wrote the famous 'Black Beauty) wrote the very popular Victorian story, 'Mother's Last Words', which sold over one million copies.

3. Fanny Fern (1811-1872) - real name 'Sarah Willis' became a well-established American newspaper columnist making her name for in-depth and sometimes critical view of American Society. Later she went on to become a successful author of children story books.

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Victorian Lensography

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Visit George Burgess Victorian Newspaper scrapbook on Nathanville

A sample article on Nathanville

THE HOME OF TASTE. - How easy it is to be neat, to clean. How easy it is to arrange rooms with the most graceful propriety. How easy it is to invest our houses with the truest elegance. Elegance resides not with the upholsterer or draper; it is not put up with the hangings and curtains; it is not in the mosaics, the carpetings, the rosewood, the mahogany, the candelabra, or the marble ornaments; it exists in the spirit presiding over the chamber of the dwelling. Contentment must always be most graceful; it grows serenely over the scene of its abode; it transforms a waste into a garden. The homes lighted by these intimations of a nobler and brighter life may be wanting in much which the discontented desire; but to its inhabitants it will be a palace far outvieing* the oriental in brilliancy and glory.

Visit Nathanville to read more ... A Victorian Scrapbook, by George Burgess.

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