Pullman's Interest in Victorian Britain

Will · 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?

Yummypixiedust · 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?

Isobel · 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.

Will · Postby **Will** » Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:26 pm

New frontiers arising, that sort of thing.

Nix · 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

TheLadyofShalott · 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.

Nix · 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

Postby **jessia** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:10 pm

when he was lecturing at oxford, he was lecturing on victorian novels.

Nix · 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

Postby **jessia** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:34 am

for a few years in the nineties.

Will · Postby **Will** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 1:16 pm

Oh yeah, 'I was a rat' is set in Victorian times too.

Will · 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.

Postby **jessia** » Mon May 19, 2003 3:52 pm

told ya so.

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

Pullman's Interest in Victorian Britain

Pullman's Interest in Victorian Britain

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