The Republic of Heaven

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?

Yeah, I've noticed that too! He probably just likes the era or whatever... I dunno?

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.

New frontiers arising, that sort of thing.

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

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 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

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

oh cool, i thought he just went to a college in oxford, i didn't know he lectured

for a few years in the nineties.

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

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.

told ya so.

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