Railway Magic 1855



"There are a thousand things that everybody sees, and nobody thinks of," marvels the author of ‘Railway Magic,’ an 1855 article in the Englishwoman s Domestic Magazine.  The writer is particularly interested in drawing attention to the sensory experience of train travel. It is not just that new parts of the country open up to the railway, or that the speed allows one to cover new territory; the actual sights of the everyday are given new meaning when seen from the window of a train. The modernity of train travel enables the traveler to see the English countryside with new eyes: the eyes of a housewife.”


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 "A Charm in Those Fingers": Patterns, Taste, and the Englishwoman's Domestic MagazineAuthor(s): MEGAN WARDSource: Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (FALL 2008), pp. 248-269Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Research Society for VictorianPeriodicalsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27760186 .Accessed: 01/11/2014 14:06
 

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