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Pullman's Interest in Victorian Britain

Postby Will » Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:09 pm

PP really does seem to like Victorian Britain doesn't he? Obviously there's the Sally Lockhart trilogy, but Lyra's world in HDM is pretty much the same as Victorian times. I wonder why he likes it so much?
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Postby Yummypixiedust » Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:06 am

Yeah, I've noticed that too! He probably just likes the era or whatever... I dunno?
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Postby Isobel » Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:18 am

I agree. I think in some ways setting stories in the Victorian period, or really anytime in the past, allows for more exciting stories because it seems like there was more mystery and possibility before there was so much technology and communication. There's a lot of great stories, written or set a long time ago, that work in the context of the time period but wouldn't be plausible now. I think the Victorian era is also thought of as being more exotic and elegant and romantic than today. Well, these are just my ideas. I personally think Victorian Britain is interesting, so I'm glad he sets lots of stories then. :D
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Postby Will » Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:26 pm

New frontiers arising, that sort of thing.
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Postby Nix » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:59 am

i read a series a few years ago, set in victorian britain about this gang of kids in poverty solving mysteries that sort of things. Im prettyy sure that was pp as well
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Postby TheLadyofShalott » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:02 am

He was probably a Victorian in a past life! Or it's just the era that he's interested in. I noticed that, too.
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Postby Nix » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:41 am

Nix wrote:i read a series a few years ago, set in victorian britain about this gang of kids in poverty solving mysteries that sort of things. Im prettyy sure that was pp as well


It was PP and it was part of series called The Ne Cut Gang
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Postby jessia » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:10 pm

when he was lecturing at oxford, he was lecturing on victorian novels.
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Postby Nix » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:44 pm

oh cool, i thought he just went to a college in oxford, i didn't know he lectured
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Postby jessia » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:34 am

for a few years in the nineties.
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Postby Will » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:16 pm

Oh yeah, 'I was a rat' is set in Victorian times too.
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Postby Will » Sun May 18, 2003 8:11 pm

Aha!

From 1988-96 he worked as a part-time Senior Lecturer in English at Westminster College, Oxford, teaching courses in The Victorian Novel, The Traditional Tale, and Creative Writing.
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Postby jessia » Mon May 19, 2003 3:52 pm

told ya so.

wonder what a creative writing course would be like with pullman teaching...
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