Discovered today that spotted dick is a pudding with raisins in it. But more importantly that "dick" was the victorian word for pudding.

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While sticking in Europe, we now move to the Victorian era, where trend setter Queen Victoria not only made certain dog breeds very popular (Hello Pomeranians), but made dressing them very trendy as well. Queen Victoria was known for putting jackets and dresses on her pups, causing clothing for dogs to become so popular that fashion houses for just dog clothes started popping up all over Paris.

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As novels were often first published as serials, "cliffhangers" became popular literary devices. The term likely derives from Thomas Hardy's 1873 novel A Pair of Blue Eyes, in which one of the characters finds himself literally hanging from a cliff.

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Baby food did not become wife spread until the 1860s. Until then babies were often fed with a mix of breastfeeding with animal milk or mashed foods until the baby. Wet nurses were employed but often considered to have corrupt charges with dubious morals.

- Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird

  

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The panto dame was an early form of drag and were popular from the early 19th century onwards.

Pantomimes were incredibly popular, theatrical depictions of fairy tales.  These almost always included a dame.  Dame characters are often played either in an extremely camp style, or else by men acting butch in women's clothing. They usually wear heavy make up and big hair, have exaggerated physical features, and perform in an over-the-top style.  Famous dame characters include:
Widow Twankey, Aladdin's mother in the pantomime versions of the story
Mother Goose
Ugly Stepmother/step sisters in Cinderella
Jacks Mother in Jack and the Beanstalk
The nanny or nurse in Babes in the Woods
The cook in Dick Whittington
The queen in Puss in Boots
Goldilocks' mother in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, who runs a circus in many versions of the pantomime.[3]


Dan Leno as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1896

  

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Pickles - An exclamation of good-tempered mistrust, or even want of belief. Nonsense, folly.

"The promoters say that benefit will accrue to...and will thus serve imperial interests. That, of course, is all pickles." Ref., 5th July 1885.

From A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909).

  

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The first patented espresso machine was in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo.

  

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The first recorded use of 'drag' in reference to actors dressed in women's clothing is from 1870.

  

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The nineteenth century birthrate fell from 7 children per family at the beginning of the century to 3.5 children at the close of the century.
- Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose

Additionally:

Victorians believed that spinsters would get sick more often.
- Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose

  

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Victorian board games trivia!

Ludo was patented by Alfred Collier in 1891 and originated by a traditional Indian game called pachisi.

'Landlord's Game' was a form of Monopoly invented in 1903. It became 'Monopoly' when copyrighted by Parker Brothers in 1935 then Hasbro in 1991.

'Maricourt' (1882) was a snakes-and-ladders like game were players had to move around the board facing a range of setbacks during courtship.

  

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“I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.”

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I've fallen down an astronomy rabbit hole the last couple days:

Did you know? Before the 1920's, it was believed that the Milky Way Galaxy was the only galaxy in the universe.

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Reading out loud was the norm until the 1700s, it wasn't until the 1800s that silently reading to ones self was widespread.

Interestingly this was a large impetus for the rise of the novel in the 1800s vs the popularity of poetry in previous centuries as poetry was meant to be read out loud whereas novels were meant to be read silently.

Source:
Bible: The Story of the King James Version by Gordon Campbell

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The first chocolate bar was made in London by Fry's Chocolate Factory in 1847.

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Reading out loud was the norm until the 1700s, it wasn't until the 1800s that silently reading to ones self was widespread.

Interestingly this was a large impetus for the rise of the novel in the 1800s vs the popularity of poetry in previous centuries as poetry was meant to be read out loud whereas novels were meant to be read silently.

Source:
Bible: The Story of the King James Version by Gordon Campbell

This is also why spelling was never standardized in early writing, it was spelled such that you'd figure it out as you read it aloud. The mentor of St. Augustin (1560s) was one of the first people who actually COULD read silently and it was a skill he was widely renowned for; Augustin wrote about it as a nearly miraculous talent.

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Muggles in Europe have had access to mass-produced toothbrushes since the late 1700s. The more you know!

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The fashion craze for feathers*, which began in the 1870s, became so widespread that by 1886 birds were being killed for the millinery trade at a rate of five million a year; many species faced extinction as a result. By the 1890s, there began to be anti plume movements in protest.

*plume trade | wikipedia

  

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