Naomi Wolf

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.

American Author

Nick Harkaway

Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.

English Novelist

Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

British Architect

Charles Palliser

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

American Novelist

Margaret Atwood

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Canadian Novelist

Understanding the historical backdrop of the Victorian era can clarify the social and artistic references of the term.

Historical Context

Victorian often implies aspects viewed as traditional, elaborate, or decorous in the cultural and social scene.

Cultural Nuance

Many countries influenced by Britain during the 1800s might have Victorian-style architecture or customs.

World Influence

Victorian as an adjective may suggest prudishness or strict social conduct.

Moral Connotation

The term can imply outdated or conservative views, especially regarding social behavior.

Outdated Views

Though sometimes seen as negative, Victorian morals can suggest dignity and respectability.

Not Always Negative

A Victorian refers to someone from the 1800s, so don't use it for a modern person with old-fashioned views.

Person from Past

Calling someone a Victorian often includes the assumption that they experienced the societal norms of that time.

Historical Insight

 to that point the river was full of raw sewage it was just free flow into the river it also meant that people were getting really ill from cholera and dying parliament agreed to invest in a sewage system this victorian era sewage system relieved the pressure on the river but then in the second world war it was

The Worth of Water PIPE...

 laughingly described as an informal settlement a slum people live in tin shacks and the three quarters are william live there this is like a victorian print in the victorian industrial city and out of these places will become the future of the city and

Technology makes way for...

 a high point of the victorian period it was designed by a gardener joseph paxton and solved a major technological problem of its day england was going to have this exhibition they could not build an enormous structure to house it

Predictions of tech's...

 even though world war one was raging in europe america was still neutral in the conflict and very much hoping that they could stay out of it we were still emerging so to speak from those innocent years of the victorian period

Do Shark Stories Help...

 mail can be tracked anywhere in the forest there are moments when when one can help feel like a 19th century Victorian hunter shooting animals out of trees but then when it's all over you realize that it's for the good of the

Incredibly Rare Lemurs...

 Waves of electromagnetic fluctuation in a vacuum seem unreal. Victorians thought the waves had to be waves in some material the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World,

Why the universe seems...

 concerns to sell furniture when you look at interior decorating in this time period you can see a massive ship away from the victorian to a more clean kind of style so instead of buying a velvet chair

How Advertisers Joined...

 got three tins of paint Airfix paint that you used for models and and I was it is a big children so I'm a big Victorian children's own when I was in a little turret at the top of it and I

A child of the state -...

 ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened

Wild Beavers Return...

 century attractions on the island include the arch rock the victorian grand hotel and fort mackinac