By Georgina Parfitt Charleston Farmhouse sits in a valley of the South Downs at the end of a long dirt road, marked private, which carves and winds around ditches of old trees. The house looks out upon farms and grazing, and just a little farther, the town of Lewes, East […]
Some wise and witty quotes from the great Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. – Preface to Pygmalion When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I […]
Here is our list of the 10 Victorian novels we at Interesting Literature think everyone should read – whether because they’re great novels, because they tell us something important about Victorian society, because they stand as classics of the period, or (in most cases) all three. They’re not arranged in any […]