A beautiful Christmas gift!

I got a lovely early Christmas gift from a very good friend this week, a highly entertaining, amusing, and occasionally poignant new book published in London, England, written and illustrated by Thomas Finch Esq. It contrasts the Victorian way of writing and speaking to our modern, more blunt, equivalents.

The format throughout is that one page presents the “Victorian Writers” way of expressing a  sentiment; and the following page, labeled “Normal People,” shows society’s current way of saying the same thing. Here is an example: 

To express my own feelings in the Victorian style about the gift, and my friend who sent it, I felt inspired to write this: 

 

I leave the modern translation of the above to you loyal readers of my blog and, of course, to my sweet friend.

For more info about the author and his work, visit EnglishEnjoyed.com. 

All covers, pages, and the drawing shown from the book are copyright 2025 by English Enjoyed.