A friend of mine recommended this article, so I thought I would share it here, since feather pillows were used during the Victorian era.
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Cowslip Wine
COWSLIP WINE
(taken from Victoriana.com)
“Take nine gallons of water, add twenty-seven pounds of loaf sugar; put it into your boiler and add the whites of five eggs, beat well. Let it boil twenty minutes; take off the scum as it rises. Then have ready thirty-six quarts of cowslips, in a tub that will hold the liquor, and the rinds of twelve lemons pared thin. You must boil the rinds of the lemons with two pounds more sugar and a little water, to a thick syrup. When your wine is about luke warm, put it into a little yeast upon a crust of bread. Let it work one whole day, then put it into your barrel, squeezing your flowers well out before you close your barrel, which must be in about three days after it is tunned. Put in your syrup half an ounce of isinglass, and one quart of brandy. Let it stand six weeks, then bottle it off.”
–From FRANK LESLIE’S LADY’S MAGAZINE (published in New York) Vol XXIV No 2, February 1869, column entitled “Household Receipts”.
Victorian Handwriting Chart
This alphabet chart was scanned from an old Victorian book from Antique Images.
Victorian Literature
This list was taken from Columbia.edu.
NOVELS
Austen, Jane
— Mansfield Park
— Emma
— Persuasion
Brontë, Charlotte
— Jane Eyre
— Villette
Brontë, Emily
— Wuthering Heights
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
— Paul Clifford
Collins, Wilkie
— The Moonstone
Dickens, Charles
— The Pickwick Papers
— Oliver Twist
— David Copperfield
— Bleak House
— Little Dorrit
Disraeli, Benjamin
— Sybil, or the Two Nations
Eliot, George
— Scenes from Clerical Life
— Adam Bede
— Middlemarch
— Daniel Deronda
Gaskell, Elizabeth
— Mary Barton
Gissing, George
— New Grub Street
Hardy, Thomas
— Tess of the d’Urbervilles
— Jude the Obscure
Martineau, Harriet
— Deerbrook
Meredith, George
— The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Oliphant, Margaret
— Miss Marjoribanks
Stevenson, Robert Louis
— The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stoker, Bram
— Dracula
Thackeray, William Makepeace
— Vanity Fair
Trollope, Anthony
— Barchester Towers
— Dr Thorne
— The Way We Live Now
— Autobiobgraphy
Trollope, Fanny
— The Widow Barnaby
Wilde, Oscar
— The Picture of Dorian Gray
— The Importance of Being Earnest
PROSE
Arnold, Matthew
— Culture and Anarchy
— “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
Carlyle, Thomas
— Sartor Resartus
— Past and Present
Huxley, TH
— Science and Culture
Mill, John Stuart
— Utilitarianism
— Autobiography
Newman, John Henry
— Apologia pro Vita Sua
Pater, Walter
— The Renaissance
Ruskin, John
— Stones of Venice (Selections)
— Modern Painters (Selections)
Wilde, Oscar
— “London Models”
— “The Decay of Lying”
— “The Critic as Artist”
— “The Truth of Masks”
PROSE
Arnold, Matthew
— “Dover Beach”
— “Isolation: To Margueritte”
— “Philomela”
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
— “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
Browning, Robert
— “My Last Duchess”
— “Fra Lippo Lippi”
— “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
— “Caliban Upon Setebos”
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
— “The Wreck of the Deutschland”
— “Carrion Comfort”
— “Pied Beauty”
Rossetti, Christina
— “Goblin Market”
— “Song [‘When I am dead, my dearest’]”
— “Remember”
— “Winter: My Secret”
— “A Birthday”
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
— “The Blessed Damozel”
— “Mary’s Girlhood (For a Picture)”
— “My Sister’s Sleep”
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
— “Hymn to Proserpine”
— “Anactoria”
— “To Walt Whitman in America”
Tennyson, Alfred
— In Memorium
— “Tithonus”
— “Ulysses”
— “The Lotus-Eaters”
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The purpose of this blog to provide a resource for all things from the Victorian period (1837-1901). My goal is to provide accurate information about the time period, as well as compiling links to other Victorian websites, societies, and items.
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