/tags/victorian/ Recent bookmarks tagged #victorian Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:54 +0000 https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation Nineteenth-century diaries show a growing middle class engaged in a constant quest for self-mastery and productivity. With the invention of printed commercial diaries came a new way of looking at life and new organisational possibilities. The future could be mapped out, goal-oriented, solution-focused. The Victorians were great innovators, but progress was Janus-faced. For every leap forward, a renewed pressure to go further, and faster, to do better, be better. The age of progress was also an age of anxiety.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #history #journaling #productivity #selfhelp #victorian #writing</p> Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:01:50 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:37976 history journaling productivity selfhelp victorian writing http://frankie23.com/?p=3 "Rose & Camellia is a Japanese flash game set in a household in the Victorian era. You play a common-born girl who has married into a noble family. Slap them till they break!"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #flash #gaming #odd #slap #victorian</p> Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:15:23 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:9376 flash gaming odd slap victorian