Burying Victoria

[Inked - Adam Prichett]

"Damp now began to make its way into every house... The damps struck within. Men felt the chill in their hearts; the damp in their minds... The life of the average woman was a succession of childbirths. She married at nineteen and had fifteen or eighteen children by the time she was thirty; for twins abounded. Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus--for there is no stopping damp; it gets into inkpots as it gets into the woodwork--sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics, and little trifles that had been essays a column long were now encyclopedias in ten or twenty volumes."
-Virginia Woolf