Tag Archives: Anthony Trollope

A great social question: what is the line dividing sanity from insanity?

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Naomi

There is perhaps no great social question so imperfectly understood among us at the present day as that which refers to the line which divides sanity from insanity. That this man is sane and that other unfortunately mad we do … Continue reading →

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Voting by mail. I’m all for it. Here’s someone who wasn’t

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Naomi

Miss Stanbury carried her letter all the way to the chief post-office in the city, having no faith whatever in those little subsidiary receiving houses which are established in different parts of the city. As for the iron pillar boxes … Continue reading →

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Planning a trip to London? Some advice about hotels

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Naomi

Circa 1867. The squire had taken for them a gloomy lodging in Sackville Street. Lodgings in London are always gloomy. Gloomy colours wear better than bright ones for curtains and carpets, and the keepers of lodgings in London seem to … Continue reading →

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