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Victorian orphans and the narrator of Peter Pan

5 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus

One of the differences between reading Peter Pan and watching it in movie or stage format is the prominence of the narrator in the novel, which famously opens "All children, except one, grow up" (1). This assertion is obviously false even from our c...

Victorian orphans and the narrator of Peter Pan

Off With My Head! Those Crazy Repressed Victorians!

23 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments CindyN11

Anyone who has even the most basic education about the Victorian era knows that societal mores encouraged and expected serious repression of ones thoughts, words, dress and actions. This was a time when women were discouraged from using puns or prov...