But in this barbarous Rome there were things more beautiful and wonderful to a young Flemish lady of the eighteenth century than they could possibly be to us, indifferent and much-cultured creatures of the nineteenth century, who know that most art is corrupt and most music trashy.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
"You think of nothing but those blessed trashy novels you are always reading.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Girls read these trashy novels and got a notion that grown men and women spent their whole lives falling in and out of love.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke