História falsificada - a era de Victoria

Stern fathers, religious zealots and prudes? How we got the Victorians wrong

As the myth of the strict Victorian father is dispelled, the writer and historian A.N. Wilson says this is not the only way we have misconstrued the Victorian era 

So where did this dour image of the Victorian age come from? How did we get the idea that they were all puritanical, unsmiling, and cruel?
When Bertrand Russell, the famous philosopher, was jailed during the First World War for being a conscientious objector, his warder was surprised to hear laughter coming from his cell. He went in and saw Russell reading a volume by his friend Lytton Strachey, called “Eminent Victorians”
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