Victorian writing
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This posting explores how to write a Victorian birthday letter, including the consciousness of young writers of formal conventions. A funny birthday poem by Herbert Gladstone and the serious letters by Mary Gladstone express universal feelings while also revealing past belief systems, such
Everything from paper to the date and the ink was scrutinized back then.
MudBay Images: Ornamental Antique Penmanship
Need a list of Victorian era writing prompts? Here are 21 to give you some ideas for your book!
Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.
Copperplate, (called Écriture Anglaise (English Roundhand) or simply Anglaise by the French, and probably the Spanish and Italians), this was the main writing style of the British (and the French as far as I can tell) during the Victorian period. In America, Spencerian script derives from this in the early 1800s. This is page 194 of The Universal Penman, first published c. 1740–1741. An example of George Bickham's English roundhand lettering and engraving skills.
,,,this is victorian/shakespearan english tho, no?
