The saying "The past is a foreign country" comes from the 1950s novel “The Go-Between,” which is set at the tail end of the Victorian era. It’s one of those concepts that sounds outlandish until one actually sits down and looks at the reality of life in the past.

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Portrait of Frieda Baars (Sangernebo) with three cats, taken circa 1907 by Jaan Riet, Estonia.

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