Originally Posted by
Seasider
If you can provide me with examples of the restrictions placed on artists in Victorian times and the necessity of the choice between being an observer and a recorder. I might revise my opinion. Dickens didn't sit in his room and ponder
social problems. Matthew Arnold was an Inspector of Schools, Kipling a practising journalist, Ruskin Art critic and social commentator,both of which need social involvement, Lewis Caroll mathematics tutor at Oxford and Anglican Deacon etc.