Quotes About 1851

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

They are probably now either archived or expunged. If I don't escape from 1851 within the next three weeks, I will never know which.

Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true. - from A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject in 1851.