I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy, her husband, Howard, and their four young children lived in a large, rambling Victorian house on South Main Street with Howard’s parents and grandparents. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It looked, to them, like something from the Victorian era, balanced on a spindly tripod, with a pleated belly like a bellows and a dark cloth that Mia ducked underneath. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This alone began to draw an increased number of visitors, especially young couples locked in the rictus of Victorian courtship and needful of quiet dark places. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of lovely Victorian architecture left over from the British. But most of it’s decaying.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She carried it to a gingerbread platform near the top of Molly’s Victorian house. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the center of town, it is a simple, two-story Victorian in the Queen Anne style, with a big cottonwood towering over the front yard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is bigger than she imagined—a white Victorian monolith with curlicues and black shutters. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Main and Park, several blocks from the town center, Mr. Yates pulls to a stop in front of a light-blue Victorian house with a wraparound porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It's a ceramic floor in an old Victorian kitchen in Chicago in February, and I'm sitting on an oak chair wearing a damp towel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah. You have to remember, many of the archaeologists were lonely Victorian men working far, far away from home and their wives. They tended to get...overexcited in their translations." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The library was red brick, Victorian, sitting self-importantly at the top of a hill. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As she passed over Molly’s house, she saw Oksi returning to her Victorian gingerbread roost for the night. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of the Victorian six-bedroom with the wraparound porch and the farmhouse kitchen, instead of the house where Granddad spent every summer since forever, I see a sleek modern building perched on a rocky hill. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One was an old Victorian Zeitoun had always admired, and a few doors down was a house he had considered buying when it had been on the market a few years earlier. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Today we turn in the opposite direction from Soul Scrolls, to where there’s an open park of sorts, with a large old building on it; ornate late Victorian, with stained glass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentiment is understandable, for Kelvin really was a kind of Victorian superman. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she leaves through the side door of the kitchen, I know it’s just the two of us, two Korean men at opposite ends of a stately Victorian house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleaned his antennae with his forefeet, frisking and smoothing them so that he looked like a Victorian villain twirling his moustachios. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he passes a restaurant he considers turning off the road, but then he finds himself in a residential section, blocks of Victorian mansions on snow-covered lawns, sidewalks covered with lacy patches of ice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly had also voted for the Truman woman standing before her Victorian house in Independence, Missouri, and not specifically for Harry Truman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was making good money, living in a big Victorian house, and it looked as if he’d found his castle at last. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The link between Norman warfare and Victorian foxhunting is perfect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan had slate-gray eyes, the kind of fair skin that belongs on a Victorian queen, and a laugh that often ended with a mischievous snort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But what these Victorian Age composers didn’t realise was that destiny was about to give them a tremendous jolt. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe she doesn’t want to talk like a Victorian. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A moment later he’s bounding into the kitchen fully dressed, as if he’d pulled on his clothes while careening down the steep wooden staircase of our drafty Victorian house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up on my Victorian flourishes, my antique diction, my girls’ school propriety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In places Hollingsworth’s advice revealed, by refraction, a certain Victorian raciness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a Victorian upper-class America in which reputation was social currency, he must have felt the sting of the family’s ignominy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sturdy Victorian bricks tower into the night, framing the courtyard, and Alex thinks, Oh. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a built-to-scale reproduction of some big old Victorian in San Francisco—according to my dad, it was a famous one on a famous street. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There he lived surrounded by his mahogany furniture, his Victorian glass cabinets, and his Persian carpets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Victorian terrace of bright red brick faced right onto the pavement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Franklin regarded nature as an antagonist that would inevitably submit to force, good breeding, and Victorian discipline. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when I went in to tell Miss Emily my chosen topic was Victorian novels, I hadn’t really thought about it much and I could see she knew it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the old Victorian mansion was boarded up, and there was a mailbox just a few yards away from me, at the end of the walkway leading to the house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My bedroom looks out on the bridge,” she said, and pointed to a Victorian masterpiece at the bottom of the mountain, directly in line with the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Charles was not all science by any means: He bathed the baby, kissed him, hugged him, walked him when he cried; he was anything but the stereotypical distant father so often portrayed in Victorian literature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My home is the Victorian semi on the tracks, the one I part-owned. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

An affable Victorian gentleman, Franklin was said to be a good-natured bumbler, dogged and clueless, with the naive ideals of a child and a disdain for acquiring backcountry skills. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This constant Victorian minuet of false grace consumed time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But that was how it was done in many upper-class Victorian families: the boys went to school, and the girls stayed home. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the birdbath altar of Nefertiti, the fancy pillars from the porch of some Victorian mansion and the crumbling statue of Diana by the entrance were beginning to create a temple-like atmosphere. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grand Victorian, covered with gingerbread, and painted the color of pistachio saltwater taffy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But his “displays” are only ever pyramids of canned pears, and the plastic sheets make the inside of his shop feel like a photograph from Victorian times. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It was a horse-drawn cart. Donated by a Victorian merchant named George Moore to ‘diffuse good literature among the rural population.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

They sold their Victorian house and moved, bringing their birds and animals with them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no “children should be seen and not heard” rule, as was common in Victorian households. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him about the house her husband rents in Brookline, a sprawling Victorian that costs less than half of their one-bedroom apartment in Murray Hill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jule paid in cash by the week for the apartment, which was the top floor of a Victorian house. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had filled their meticulously restored Victorian house with them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When Ted finished his residency in dermatology, we bought a run-down three- story Victorian with a large garden in Ashbury Heights. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” said the King, “I wish you had been born forwards like other people. What with Victorians and Mafeking Night...” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered a worrisome course in the Victorian novel where woman after woman died, palely and nobly, in torrents of blood, after a difficult childbirth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the center of it is a large Victorian sink. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Below him in the Victorian house, the falcon fan club was peering through the spotting scope in Molly’s room. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had a good life in California, pretty Victorian home with a peaked roof, a good marriage, a promising writing career, in-laws who loved me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Jaaxes’ house was the largest Victorian house in town, a pile of turreted brick with a slate roof and tall windows and a cupola and wooden paneling made of golden American chestnut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down on a cramped Victorian sofa, as far from the desk as possible. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There were mildewed boxes of old parish records in one corner, and an open door that revealed a Victorian flush toilet and a basin, with only a cold tap, in the other. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What? Up in the attic like a Victorian pot scrubber?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few adventurous members of the gentler sex took to wearing ridiculous “windshield hats,” watermelon-sized fabric balloons, equipped with little glass windows, that fit over the entire head, leaving ample room for corpulent Victorian coiffures. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bound volumes of the Banker’s Journal and the Stockbroker’s Gazette, and complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few wind- whipped and decrepit Victorian mansions, remnants of a lost era of seagoing optimism, loomed out of the snowfall on the town’s sporadic hills. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting- wise. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

An early benefactor was his twin brother, Monty, who had taken over the Dallas hotel empire their father built from a single Holiday Inn and who donated a three-story Victorian in a neighborhood near Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen of a Victorian house near the center of town, Major Nancy Jaax, a veterinarian in the United States Army, stood at a counter making dinner for her children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbid ding as ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life, so completely absent during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus Green. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He found Imogen’s old books—early editions of Vanity Fair and other Victorian novels—and piled them next to his bed, as if he needed to see them before he fell asleep. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two silage towers shone like Victorian Apollo spacecraft. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Both Adams and Jefferson, it turned out, were too deeply shaped by the desperate struggle against England to foresee the Anglo-American alliance that flourished throughout the Victorian era and beyond. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We stopped finally in front of a neat little Victorian house with an odd shape. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

First he had seen the Victorian pile that was Albert Hall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We drive for a while and the road dead-ends into a Victorian farmhouse. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a Victorian building with white trim. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His was considered a modern, enlightened prison, despite its Victorian chill. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Prim-lipped Victorian china dolls stared in profusion through dusty store windows, like so many props from respectable horror films. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of starting junior high school, I lived like the Victorian recluses I read about. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late Victorian, the house is, a family house, built for a large rich family. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll kill it. You’ll be glad you took a vacation. I’m strong on superheroes, spy movies, YouTubers, fitness, money, makeup, and Victorian writers. What about you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Victor walks into the building—undisclosed location, of course—with Andrea Donahue, a coworker who doesn’t stop to admire the portraits of smiling Victorians and past presidents on the yellow walls. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled out one that was covered in different types of native saltwater fish and one that had an old Victorian drawing of a mermaid. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I look around, taking in Day Street, wide and tree-lined, with a combination of dilapidated Victorians where college students live, warehouses, the occasional business, and the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The Tudor period witnessed a boom in food/drink/Baby Jesus-related carols, surpassed in enthusiasm only by the Victorian era. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was a thick Victorian novel about an orphan. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They were staring past her, into the grand Victorian space of the ward, the lofty pillars, the potted palms, the neatly ranged beds and their pure, turned-down sheets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry was president of the Senior Debating Society, the only extracurricular activity he had time for, and Jean Louise was a fat fourteen, immersed in Victorian poetry and detective novels. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The building was an old Victorian house, and it was within walking distance of anywhere they might need to go. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The train crawls along; it judders past warehouses and water towers, bridges and sheds, past modest Victorian houses, their backs turned squarely to the track. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was roomy and a little chaotic, home to the family’s five children and stuffed with heavy Victorian furniture and antique glassware that Santita’s mom, Jacqueline, liked to collect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I could smell the old furniture, which was probably Victorian. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if we are something he inherited, like a Victorian pump organ, and he hasn’t figured out what to do with us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Victorian, redbrick topped with copper domes and spires that had long ago turned green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Thomas Carlyle thought about these questions, too, and he wrote what would become a motto of the Victorian era: The dilemma was that they were becoming “destitute of faith, yet terrified of skepticism.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dad’s sister, Aunt Anne, was an ample Victorian who wore full, sweeping skirts and high ground-gripper shoes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a biography of Cortés; a translation of Gregory of Tours; a study of Victorian murderesses, put out by the Harvard University Press. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had gotten married and bought a run-down Victorian house on Long Island that he restored, and he and his wife had a child, a little girl. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We meet in the spacious parlor room of the wealthiest lady in the group, who lives in a grand Victorian on the outskirts of town. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Victorians almost completed the destruction by putting a railway line through, but the beautiful South Downs setting survives, and it's a lovely place for a walk. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z

Springer creates an intensely action-packed life for Holmes' younger sister, Enola, who is just a teenager when she creates her own detective agency in Victorian London. Sherlock Holmes' teen years under a magnifying glass 2011-02-26T00:28:04Z

I’m sure the polite Victorians did not want to hear about poorhouses and orphanages and yet they were waiting each month for the next installment.” An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

With its red leather padded seat, it is exactly the kind of beast you imagine a Victorian time-traveling gent would “drive.” "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

We can still be provoked by its Victorian modernist hauteur: "All art is quite useless." Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z

In a mansion some 20 miles outside New York City, his new guardians spoke to one another in courtly tones and dressed in Victorian garb. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

But amid the Victorian gothic, no structure is quite as eye-catching as the Johnson Museum of Art, an abstract concrete tower that looks like someone forgot to fill in the floors. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Capital is an ambitious state-of-the-nation with a positively Victorian breadth, dramatising many present-day obsessions, from bank meltdowns to Islamist terrorism, house prices to parking tickets. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

It started with the invitation: a photograph of a bearded Sting, the musician looking like a Victorian professor in patterned suit with matching tie. 2010-01-20T05:21:00Z

The attic holds a small library of late Victorian and early modern popular fiction. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

“Every generation, going back to Periclean Greece, to second century Rome, to the Enlightenment, to the Georgians and to the Victorians, believes itself to be the most anxious age ever,” Mr. Stossel said. Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Her ultimate question, though, is a broad one: How did the Victorians understand the interplay between mind and body? A Corporeal History of the 19th Century 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

The new palace embodied a dawning Victorian age of order. The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton – review 2012-10-05T21:55:06Z

Mr. Riggs said he thought of the snapshots, particularly those with an “Edward Gorey-like Victorian weirdness, these haunting images of peculiar children.” Ransom Riggs Is Inspired by Vintage Snapshots 2013-12-30T22:52:09Z

Most wonderfully, a grand, fully operational 66-ton, Victorian steam engine arrives at the play’s denouement. In Transit: Theater in the Tube: 'Railway' at Waterloo 2010-10-28T10:01:00Z

Set in Victorian England, the play, by Bernard Pomerance, an American living in London, was based on the true story of the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick and his struggle to adapt to society. Jack Hofsiss, Stage Director of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 65 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was not the only Victorian utopian, by a long way. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z

Frith, however, famous for panoramic views of Victorian art such as The Derby Day, teeming with characters and incidents worthy of any of the author's works, remained a friend. Where is Kate Nickleby? 2012-06-18T12:21:26Z

Photograph: Victorian Society Hackney is no stranger to class warfare, and architects and their buildings are never far from the front line. David Chipperfield's heritage pub brawl ends in a victory for no one 2013-05-03T16:27:00Z

There is the thing of the richness of the Victorian or the Edwardian era. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

One of his montages in the show was that of a tiny Victorian study with its ceiling open to the sky and, on a desk, a tiny man walking on a map. Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Temple finds flickering black-and-white footage from the Victorian and Edwardian capital and will splice it with 80s analogue video, showing Margaret Thatcher outside Downing Street. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z

It’s not that Mr. Suchet is camping it up in his Victorian regalia. London Theater Journal: En Travesti, Both Sides Now 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Rather than suffering in silence like a good little Victorian wife, Katherine kicked back. Florence Pugh: ‘Me, the next Kate Winslet? That’s ridiculous’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

All Souls College, with its serene towers and lacy wrought-iron gates to the east, and Brasenose, with its daffy but charming mix of early Tudor, late Gothic, baroque and Victorian quadrangles. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

If that's not enough, according to the estate agents it was also visited by another Victorian literary giant, Wilkie Collins. Writers' boltholes on the market 2011-08-03T18:31:24Z

The machines horrified many Victorians, she writes, because “they forced a recognition that women had two legs and that they opened.” ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Horse-lovers will be well catered for, with a Victorian gymkhana and the chance to visit the stable and see the grooms preparing the equine participants in the May Day parade. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z

Among them are suites that pay homage to the Victorian era, and rooms dedicated to nature and poets such as the Scottish writer Nan Shepherd. 5 Cozy Hotels Where Winter Is a Treat 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

While writing She Rises I pored over this account of fisher girls, fishermen and their smacks, with photographs taken in the Victorian hey-day of the British fishing industry by Ford Jenkins of  Lowestoft. Kate Worsley's top 10 East Anglian tales 2013-04-03T09:39:22Z

Lena could be mistaken for a Victorian ghost. "Orphan: First Kill" horror homages, from the ribbon around the neck to that knowing bird 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mazzie is a more obviously formidable Anna, a doughty Victorian matron used to holding her own in exotic and adverse environments. How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Ben’s party was something we were just going to have to get through, like childbirth or a Victorian illness. Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

For varieties of more than a pound, Creasy rigs a supporting mesh bag for each fruit, a practice redolent of the care and craft of the Victorian estate gardener. Reclaim space in a smaller garden with trellis pumpkins 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Many Victorians, living in an era of scientific and technological progress, felt an opposite pull — captivated by the supernatural, by ghost stories, by spooky phenomenon. Review | Two historical mystery novels plunge readers into the past while keeping them guessing 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

At Ohne Titel, the design duo described the look as “Victorian sportswear,” referring to netting for dresses and sports mesh for hosiery. 2010-02-15T13:10:00Z

And taxidermied peacocks—one of them a snowy white—add an element of Victorian novelty. Marin Hopper opens Hayward House on New York’s Upper East Side 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

To my back was Tour & Taxis, the spectacularly Victorian, newly renovated transportation compound in Molenbeek where Art Brussels occurs every April. Brussels emerges as Europe’s epicenter of contemporary art 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The deerstalker cap never looked so good, Holmes — especially back in the Victorian Era. Watch Holmes and Watson Time-Travel in the New 'Sherlock' Trailer 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Victorian house was an "absolute pit" when she moved in 15 years ago with her husband, a furniture designer. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

Say what you will about Victorian England’s prime ministers and business leaders, at least they weren’t Yahoos. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Paul Lewis, an expert on Collins, described the findings to The Telegraph as “the Rosetta Stone of Victorian studies.” A Trove of Forgotten Writings Is Found in a Periodical Edited by Dickens 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Domestic Warfare, Seen in Slow Motion The lights rise on a spare Victorian drawing room. Dance Review: ?Last Touch First? at the Joyce Theater 2012-04-11T21:32:21Z

Each cluster is dominated by a personification of the element, created for the show by Mr. Shonibare in his signature style of mannequins dressed in Victorian garments made from colorful, African-looking fabrics. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Linking the Past and the Present Through Art 2010-09-07T17:00:00Z

But we know the Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne had a "lost love", a woman whom he wanted to marry but never did. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

Charles Dickens was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the sentimental city; he makes the reader empathise with Victorian London, charting its emotional geography as much as its physical. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

The Victorian repression that produced Temple, meanwhile would give way to other, perhaps more subtle, sorts of nymphetmania. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Who would have thought that the person for whom the Victorian Era was named would be this much fun? Review: One Vote for ‘Victoria’ Over ‘The Crown’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

At one point they wore tuxedo dresses; at another, Victorian tops with sharp shoulders paired with ruffled shorts that fluttered beautifully when they shimmied. Music Review: Santigold at Music Hall of Williamsburg - Review 2012-01-18T15:29:25Z

As the barista at the downtown Starbucks said to me, “I think it’s the longest stretch of Victorian mansions in the whole country.” Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

For nearly four decades Anne Perry’s riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era. ‘Murder on the Serpentine’: The end for Anne Perry’s Thomas Pitt? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The story I tell in my book happens to vindicate everything the Victorians believed about this incredible cultural moment. Trying to revive the Renaissance 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z

"She has very contemporary heroes and heroines, though they have a strong Victorian sense of duty," she says. E Nesbit's classic The Railway Children accused of 'plagiarism' 2011-03-21T14:40:53Z

If you'd like to find out more about some of the strangest Victorian Christmas traditions, "Yule" hopefully enjoy the list of 11 below. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

It didn't work too well back in the Victorian era, but was clever Isambard on to something? Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention 2010-12-08T08:00:00Z

His "Ghost" kayak is kitted out with a video camera to record its passengers' journeys to Deadman's Island, a former burial site for those who died on Victorian prison ships. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The building itself has an appropriately cinematic pedigree as the Victorian Lambeth workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin spent time as a child. Cine-Files: The Cinema Museum, London 2013-02-12T09:00:00Z

Her life is a reminder of how many Victorian women were actively, and fruitfully, engaged in science but largely unrecognized and now unremembered. Daguerreotypes Spur Book on John Dillwyn Llewelyn 2014-02-06T15:00:01Z

But, in general, Mr. Korff just quietly crams his Queen Anne Victorian with the pottery he’s grown so passionate about over the last 20 years. An Obsessive Collector Who’s Drawn Royalty to Brooklyn 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The “sensation” novel, a different type of Victorian best-seller, showed that tears could be enjoyable in themselves. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

His most highly regarded work includes The Age of Improvement, and the trilogy Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things. Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z

Another Victorian landmark, the 46,000-square-foot Shoreditch Town Hall, site of the inquest into Jack the Ripper’s last murder, has turned its maze of dilapidated basement rooms into a venue for experimental arts. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z

Glasgow is a pilgrimage site for architecture buffs, thanks to a cityscape packed with Victorian facades, early 20th-century touches and bold and glassy new construction. Glasgow surprises with art, design and culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Scholars will have to rethink the history of Victorian Romantic poetry. Digested classic: Possession by AS Byatt 2010-07-09T13:17:00Z

Saturday; presentations, lectures and events including vintage-steamboat rides, fashion shows, Victorian teas and Ball Saturday; historic tours, 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z

Then there is the fascinating, but creepy, woodland dioramas from the Victorian Walter Potter, who used stuffed squirrels, mice and birds playing cards or cricket or holding tea parties, in scenes created in glass cases. Style: Outsider Art Finds Its Place in Fashion 2011-01-10T13:50:04Z

Another water analogy came to me as we floated over the town’s Victorian facades and brick storefronts. Telluride beyond the slopes: The Colorado town’s hidden assets by hot-air balloon 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Now under construction and rolling on to the lot around year’s end: The Cottage, with a Victorian/“shabby chic” theme. 3 great little places to stay in Portland, Oregon 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

I'm sure they are valuable in terms of cash and they are valuable in terms of what they would tell us about life in Victorian England. Black Beauty author letters found 2013-10-07T12:28:58Z

The standout among the latter is Melinda Fabian’s large installation of a Victorian garden, populated by a menagerie of 3-D paper animals. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Of course, the lives of artists have long been of interest - the Victorians were obsessed with the morality of writers and painters. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

And Victorian art is full of such surprises. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

A Victorian Country Christmas Festival: Victorian village theme with vendors, entertainment, singing nativity, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Christmas Ships and other weekend community events 2010-12-03T19:39:00Z

It’s Victorian, it’s veiled, but we all know what’s really going on there. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

She said that even though it is a Victorian relic, the connection between femininity, food and food labor, like cooking, remains strong. Real women are still expected to cook: From sitcoms to the Food Network, the “angel in the kitchen” pressure on women prevails 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Check out the skulls, taxidermy, antiques and Victorian mourning pieces, like wreaths made of human hair, at the aptly named Belfry Oddities & Collectables. 36 Hours in Seattle 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Pro tip: Pay attention to the mentions of wallpaper, which provide a literal backdrop for arguments about taste, aesthetics and mass-production in Victorian society. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z

The transformation of the prim and crinolined Victorian lady, hair grimly upswept, into a romantic Bohemian woman, was achieved through art. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z

The same barrister reminded the jury in his closing speech that this is not a Victorian law, but came into force as late as 2008. Extreme porn trial: well, thank you for that interesting anatomical lesson 2012-08-09T12:39:47Z

He is no longer going to direct the new museum that Mr. Indiana wanted created in his former ramshackle Victorian home, the Star of Hope, on the island of Vinalhaven. The Artist’s Caretaker: Once He Controlled Everything. No More. 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

"The Victorians loved them when Middleport first started making them – the famous blue-and-white china which turns up in bits when you dig the garden," she said. Stoke pottery gets boost from Prince's Regeneration Trust 2013-01-14T22:35:41Z

The want ads lead Barrow to a run-down manse in which a wistful, elderly gentleman rattles around and pines for the Victorian era, when the house played host to visiting dignitaries and royals. ‘Downton Abbey’s’ final season seems intent on sticking the landing 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Some of the most arresting things are by unknown 19th-century creators: Victorian mourning paper weights in the form of miniature books and intricate, cut-paper works representing a hand holding a heart. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z

Everything except the centrepiece Victorian clock tower was demolished to build a ‘utopian’ vision of urban housing. The demolition of the Market Estate 2010-06-17T14:16:00Z

Several figures in Victorian dress stand scattered, their faces blurred by motion; one smeary participant is caught in the act of turning away, his coattails flaring behind him. He Created the First Known Movie. Then He Vanished. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The clapboard villa with wraparound porch is a genteel Victorian home, crammed with dark furniture and family photos. Word up: new Chicago museum celebrates American authors 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

People started dabbling with baths on a larger scale in the Victorian era, when the Greeks were admired anew. The weird histories of four common household items 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Our prevailing image of science is still basically a Victorian one of true or false, proof leading to certainty. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z

The phrase, "the two hearts beating each to each", might seem decorous to a modern reader, but for a Victorian poet it must have nudged the limits of the permissible. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z

Electric alternatives were pioneered in the later Victorian era, and the last regular steam services ended in 1905. Steam train back on tube track for 150-year anniversary celebrations 2012-12-16T19:00:03Z

And the unfolding of the plot, with its lurid final twist, seems infused with an almost Victorian moralism. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

There are some wonderfully witty pastiches in “Sweeney Todd” too — in this case of Victorian broadsheet ballads and parlor songs. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

The costumes are Victorian, but there’s a pervasive sense of out-of-time unreality. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Picture a place called Waterbury, Conn., and you might, as I did, imagine rows of Victorian houses with wide porches, driveways lined with expensive cars, beloved daughters with bright and easy futures. A Mother and Daughter and a Town Made of ‘Brass’ 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Alongside my Victorian lord I have a photo of a dog in a flat Kangol cap and glasses who looks like Samuel L Jackson. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

At first, Glavin specialized in Victorian literature — Dickens and George Eliot and the Brontës — while writing plays on the side. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

I familiarized myself with my lodgings for the evening: a little wagon that resembled a Victorian dollhouse with wheels. Personal Journeys: A Twist on the B&B in Wales 2011-05-06T20:15:17Z

Victorian cravats and Regency-era ruffled shirts were the order of the day. How the Rolling Stones Became Fashion Icons 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

He thinks, as Victorian idealists such as George Eliot did, that the purpose of good books is to teach one how to live better. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z

"It's really a novel in paint and would have been read as such by the Victorian picture-going public," Brown said. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

A place in history opened up: in 1985, Ernie Wise made Britain’s first mobile phone call here, obliquely dressed as a Victorian coachman. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Significantly, fashion followed the same course after the Victorian invention of synthetic-pigment textile dyes, which produced strong, harsh colors. Designers Circle Back to Pastels 2014-04-07T06:12:36Z

Among them is Terry Lewis, an antiques dealer who sells rewired and restored light fixtures, including schoolhouse and industrial styles and fancy Victorian pieces. How to restyle upholstered furniture 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Hung closely together on the wall as in a Victorian picture gallery, the paintings celebrate the many ways humans have looked at the heavens. In the galleries: Delineating a cultural frontier 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Victorian houses that line the avenues have been allowed to dilapidate. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Her first assemblage, “A California Pearl,” was inspired by Victorian homes in the Bay Area and was created with chopsticks, keys, ballpoint pen springs, sand and costume jewelry. And now for something lighter: these amusing white-on-white portraits assembled from junk 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

We begin in1883, with a young woman, smartly swathed in dark Victorian ruffles and folds, taking a seaside walk. ‘The Invisible Woman’: a Dickens of a love affair 2014-01-23T22:31:34Z

Its main street is lined with stone and brick Victorian buildings, on our visit connected across the high street by festive bunting. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

He continues to fascinate, whether he’s prowling the foggy streets of Victorian London or trolling the Internet in the age of Twitter. Holmes, Sweet Holmes: 10 Great Movie and TV Sherlocks 2014-01-21T17:27:33Z

A Victorian clock tower stood amid naked tree limbs, and the surrounding walls were papered to resemble ghostly brownstones. The Thinking Woman’s Runway 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

It was in Victorian times that childhood was given all these myths and legends and fairy tales, as if it was a child’s world, not an adult’s world. Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Chloë Schama stumbled across the idea for “Wild Romance” in the British Library, where she was supposed to be researching Victorian “sensation novels.” New Books by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jo Nesbo and Chlo? Schama 2010-03-17T23:05:00Z

This modern interpretation of the Tess story, due out this month, is set in India, where this filmmaker found parallels to Hardy’s ossified Victorian England. The Return of the Hardy Novel to the Screen 2012-07-13T16:29:16Z

The restaurant moved to its current location, inside a Victorian cottage in the Uptown neighborhood, in 2016. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Businesses flourished in this district brimming with stately architectural styles, from Richardson Romanesque to High Victorian. A Turnaround in Topeka 2012-08-03T16:41:19Z

Edith Wharton rose to prominence through laying into Victorian suppositions in The House of Mirth. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z

He was a wild-eyed wanderer, and now he lived in a comfy Victorian in Portland, Maine, and was giving me lectures about stranger danger. Every woman should travel alone 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z

Trelawny of the Wells, an 1898 comedy by playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, is a play of opposites: the tale of a female theatre star and her struggles to adjust to genteel Victorian society. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

Back to the future … WARP: The Reluctant Assassin romps between Victorian and today's London Some people think that if a work of art is commercially successful, then it can't be of high quality. WARP, Book One: The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer – review 2013-04-27T09:00:01Z

Photograph: Getty Images Volunteer as a Victorian and get a free lunch Not only will you achieve a saintly glow by helping others, but working as a volunteer can get you free dinners. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

Architects and antiquaries had been arguing over these matters since early Victorian times. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z

I bought poetry pamphlets and leather-backed French encyclopaedias published by Larousse; cartoon books and Victorian keepsakes; out-of-date dictionaries and bound copies of magazines from the Cornhill to the Strand. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z

Sarah Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen, explained the handcraft that went into the surface of the curving, Victorian silhouette. Exploring the Grace in Lace 2012-04-16T10:46:20Z

Ali Catterall The series on how London streets have changed since 19th-century philanthropist Charles Booth catalogued different locales ends with a Victorian social experiment. TV highlights 11/07/2012 2012-07-10T18:59:01Z

"It is a Victorian diorama full of crochetdermy pieces and has been designed to be viewed from the outside," she said. Crochet animal art mimics taxidermy 2013-08-15T05:19:28Z

Strachey’s argument in “Eminent Victorians” — that biographies should shape their material rather than simply ladle it out in gobs — is now orthodoxy. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Bicknell & Co. and “The American Builder’s Companion” by Asher Benjamin — that show historical precedence, proportions, molding shape used during specific eras, and style differentiation between, say, Victorian gingerbread and gothic revival. 7 mistakes homeowners make when renovating older properties 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

No concession has been made to the Victorian architecture of the world's longest pleasure pier. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-25T14:35:10Z

But the Victorian townhouse in Boston that was recently revitalized by architect Dell Mitchell and interior decorators Heather Wells and Bruce Fox is anything but common. A Historic Boston Townhouse Gets A Glam Update 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Her otherworldly voice, whose rapid vibrato evokes butterfly wings beating against the sky, distilled the ideal of Victorian purity. Music Review: Maude Maggart’s ‘Into the Garden’ at Feinstein’s 2012-06-07T21:52:17Z

While waiting for the seekers to find her, Ms. Gallagher, now an associate professor of fine arts at Boston College, would leaf through the closet’s stacks of Victorian sketches of the Civil War. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z

In that work, a greenhouse daubed with paint made of chalk from the White Cliffs of Dover stands on Victorian tiles salvaged from the Palace of Westminster. The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

But oh, Mr. Frohman, children have acquired a bit more power since the Victorian era. ‘Finding Neverland’ Opens at American Repertory Theater 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

That peculiarly British trait of blandness, Hough said, “comes right through from the Victorian suspicion of pleasure.” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Though the show includes some Victorian photographs, its thrust is 20th-century Blackpool. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:47Z

Look: for all the energy of Victorian artists, they never broke through into the new dimensions being opened up by their French contemporaries such as Monet. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

At one point, Christle discovers that the Victorians did not actually collect their tears in glass vials, called lachrymatories; nonetheless, the image gives her a metaphor for her process. “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

He's everything that I suspect Victorian England was probably more like - snobbery and an absolute belief in the class system. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z

But what initially made the show such a success was the ways it used its Victorian trappings as restrictions for its characters to push against. The damsel in distress trap: How “Penny Dreadful” betrayed Vanessa Ives 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The novel mirrors Dickens' concern for the suffering and exploitation of Victorian youth, and his anger over Britain's unjust prison and legal systems. Book-It stages 'Great Expectations' 2011-02-10T20:55:04Z

He smiled, and made arrangements to sublet an apartment in an old Victorian house with a view of Alcatraz; the place had a price tag galaxies out of my range. Against being “sponsored”: I never wrote less than when my boyfriend supported me 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Respectability and vagabondage are fighting it out in Victorian society, as they did in Pinero himself, the stage-struck clerk turned dramatist. Fences; Trelawny of the Wells; Richard III – review 2013-03-03T00:05:30Z

This flouting of Victorian morals seems to have worked remarkably well. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, that’s typical of this novel: Its violent acts are related with Victorian decorum; its emotional range is as tightly drawn as Mother Scrooge’s corset. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Striped jacquard jackets with black roses are an easy way of suggesting a Victorian romance thriller. Front Row: Making the Best of a Brief Turn 2013-06-19T18:39:52Z

Her positive portrayal of Victorian England contradicted that of Lytton Strachey’s grim one in “Eminent Victorians,” published in 1918. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

There are grand Queen Anne mansions with patterned roof shingles; charming Victorians with turrets and weathervanes; Italianate homes with mansard roofs and overhanging eaves. Hudson, N.Y.: An Elegant Transformation 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Valentines appeared for hundreds of years, but it was the Victorians, those same folks who “invented” Christmas, who took the holiday of romantic cards to its commercial climax. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

No critic has ever exercised more influence than Ruskin did over high Victorian England. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

I always find myself returning to that hammy Victorian style – I like the tailcoat and white shirt and big hair aesthetic. ‘I haven’t worn colour since I was 14’: meet Britain’s longest-standing goths 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

As for the Rembrandt, “it was in a Victorian frame,” Nye recalled. The story behind a Rembrandt painting's journey from a New Jersey basement to the Getty 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

It is set in Victorian England, when competing theories of evolution-like processes, along with spectacular fossil discoveries, were beginning to mount a fierce and frightening challenge to prevailing religious beliefs. Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

This conforms to the Victorian ideal of "muscular Christianity", the idea that a healthy, muscular masculine body would lead to a healthy mind, and "manliness" enacted over social class and gender. Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Shelf Life is a promenade show that takes you through the old Victorian building and beyond. Librarian Lizzy Evans on Shelf Life 2010-04-12T20:45:00Z

He employed shingle-style architecture on the exterior of the home, rejecting the Victorian architectural rigidity that was in favor at the time. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

An American audience might find this corner of Victorian England rather obscure, with its references to the Chartists and the Infidels — not to mention the anti-Corn-Law League and the prison at Coldbath Fields. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Yet Brahms's music still thrives, rather like the sturdy but inspired Victorian town halls where his symphonies are so often played. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z

Agape Enterprise, which lies just inside the unassuming front metal door, occupies a wood-paneled room furnished with a green Victorian sofa and towering cream-colored drapes. Bushwick, Brooklyn as Next Gallery District in New York 2012-03-07T23:17:42Z

The town was a candy-colored Victorian fantasy of wholesome amusements — an elaborate whirling carousel, the Crystal Maze fun house, baby parades. A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Thomas Richards, formerly a literature professor at Harvard, suggests this analysis in The Commodity Culture of Victorian England. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Contrasted to 21st-century parents, flailing and racked with doubt, Victorian parents basked in moral certitude. Review | Turpentine for tummy trouble? An entertaining look at Victorian-era parenting advice. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Saturday, March 22; presentations, lectures and events including vintage-steamboat rides, fashion shows, Victorian teas and Ball Saturday; historic tours, 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. History, herons and heritage | Weekend Preview 2014-03-19T20:09:21Z

No chin-stroking about whether a property is actually a bit more Edwardian than Victorian. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Victorian city fathers knew this; when they created ambitious museums in Liverpool or Manchester, they were asserting the metropolitan nature of these cities. Save face. Save our museums 2010-09-22T13:24:00Z

All in all, she notes, “even though we are not giving a concert-hall Victorian performance, we are definitely trying to be true to the original material.” A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Goodwin, who studied history — with a focus on the Victorian — at Cambridge University, said that her vision of the adolescent, impetuous Victoria came in part from being a parent. A Woman at the Helm, Bringing ‘Victoria’ to Life 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The influence of those Victorian writers came home to me, and I felt Maf's joyous journey into the 20th century was off. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

“When we moved in, this was a crack house, this was a crack house,” she said, pointing across the street from her father’s beautifully restored yellow Victorian with stained-glass windows. Oakland: Brooklyn by the Bay 2014-05-02T22:36:02Z

SAT Santa visit, photos, stories, staff in Victorian costumes, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-12-04T23:56:57Z

Matthew Arnold told the sceptical Victorians to read the Bible for its poetry; Frey, however, is lumpenly prosaic, unable to conceive of or communicate rapture. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z

In this regard, his art can feel almost Victorian, a sensibility America still doesn’t understand, which may explain arguments that Mr. Johns’s work is obscurant and repressed. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

Because of course there are, as well as the fictional histories of periods like the Victorian era, there are also enormous quantities of stories written about the future. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

How do you maintain that as you move the show back to the Victorian era? 'Sherlock' Creator on Benedict Cumberbatch’s 1 Request for the Holiday Special 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Some are neatly typed, some are grand Victorian tomes, some are written in haste on pages torn from books. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the newlyweds’ drawing room, designed by Se Hyun Oh, is pristine white, rather than choking in Victorian darkness. Antaeus Theatre Company clarifies the bad behavior of 'Hedda Gabler' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Photographs: The Gaskell Society The Manchester home of Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and short story writer, is to be restored thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.85m. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

The HLF regards the Grade II-listed building as one of the finest examples of early Victorian Greek revival architecture in Wales. £5m more for Victorian museum revamp 2013-09-12T11:11:55Z

While people have attached symbolism to flowers throughout the centuries, this specific type of floriography gained popularity in the Victorian era in both England and America. "Miss Scarlet" and the case of the Victorian outsiders 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Moran, a single mother, lived with her two children, Jack and Ava, in a Victorian house in Wellington overlooking the Pacific. Eileen Moran, Special Effects Wizard for Weta, Dies at 60 2012-12-05T05:23:01Z

Housed in a Victorian terrace within pebble-throwing distance of the sea. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Cohen reveals that far from eschewing any potentially embarrassing connection with their "simpleton" offspring, the Victorians tended rather to dote on them. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z

In Victorian times, exercise – or physical therapy, as it was often called – was a way to improve overall health. Fat people can be fit too: meet the personal trainers who challenge every stereotype 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Howard traces our “collective clutter agita” back to the Victorians, who favored parlors overstuffed with the curios generated by a burgeoning industrial economy. Review | Jennifer Howard’s ‘Clutter: An Untidy History’ takes Marie Kondo’s message a step further 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Revelstoke This new ski area in British Columbia is teeming with cheap motor lodges and affordable Victorian inns. | Ski Guide 2010: Where Peaks Are High, and Prices Low 2009-12-14T14:26:00Z

One is the opening, where we see a late Victorian Staffordshire craftsman, David Best, cherishing his newly made table as much as his loving bride. Table – review 2013-04-14T16:53:20Z

The film makes much of the weird incongruity of shabby austerity England coming into contact with the bomb, living relics of the Victorian age confronting the world of Hiroshima. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

Modern, minimalist design meets Victorian charm in this lofty apartment in London, originally designed as children’s school in 1853. Estates of the Week - September 5, 2014 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Suspicion, rumour and terror run in the gutters, along with all the usual Victorian filth. TV review: Ripper Street; Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon; The Hotel 2012-12-30T22:00:02Z

I'd always loved Edward Lear, and I became fascinated with Victorian children's literature, discovering people such as Charles Causley and Robert Graves. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

For another theatrical spin on the Victorian era, try “The Streets of New York” at the Irish Repertory Theater. A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Deadly wallpaper, killer corsets, toxic paint, exploding stoves, infested babies' bottles … it's amazing that anyone got through Victorian times at all. Scott & Bailey; Coast; Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home – TV review 2013-04-04T06:00:00Z

"There's not that much in this world that's original," Kiss says, "and she's taking this old Victorian form and making it new." T Magazine: Small World 2012-10-19T18:45:43Z

He is a character—I mean, in a Victorian novel. Trump and Clinton: The Victorian Novel 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

A young cat gets dumped by his owners and makes its way to an eerie Victorian mansion where Lawrence, a retired magician, lives with a collection of pets and mechanical toys. 'Thunder and the House of Magic' full of worn-out tricks 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Today, the terraces are prized for their Victorian flourishes, like the elegant iron lace decorating their balconies. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z

In Madison, architectural eye candy abounds: a Beaux-Arts courthouse, boxwood gardens, and Victorian and neoclassical churches and houses. Perfect solution to the mother-son travel conundrum: A dude ranch in the heart of Dixie 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

From the 1830s, smaller, less elegant editions were marketed to middling families, and became a commonplace of early Victorian childhood, then of a passionate nostalgia for that childhood. Projections of puppet theatre 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

In the late 19th century, James Abbott McNeill Whistler performed this role, entertaining the Victorians as much with his aesthetic persona and attitudes as with his paintings. Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job 2012-05-23T14:25:04Z

Isabella Bird, the Victorian travel writer whose books kept her English audience rapt, wrote in “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan”: “The wood-carving needs weeks of earnest work for the mastery of its ideas and details.” Overnighter : North of Tokyo, Exploring the Sacred and Scenic 2014-02-06T19:30:54Z

In the next room, a painting depicts the late Victorian designer and socialist William Morris, who appears as a giant throwing Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's 377-foot yacht into the Venetian lagoon. Prominent pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2013-06-01T06:26:10Z

The neighborhood and park are among the most photographed spots in San Francisco because of the Painted Ladies, a row of Victorian houses facing the park on Steiner Street. Rock, bridge, bay: San Francisco's movie landmarks 2012-10-01T20:08:16Z

Victorian hipsters spent all their salary on celery, apparently, meaning they couldn’t afford to buy houses or save for retirement. From pineapples to spaghetti – every era has had its own avocado toast 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

My whole stage persona is a mix of my childhood obsession with Rogue from “X-Men” and a Victorian ghost. Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

A film becomes something else, but a series is like … do you know what a Victorian three-decker novel is? Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Conan Doyle was a complicated person — an honorable Victorian gentleman, a worldly-wise medical man, a believer in spiritualism. Meet the magician behind Sherlock Holmes 2011-11-13T04:57:31Z

The late architect Robert Venturi praised the designers Charles and Ray Eames for bringing back “good old Victorian clutter” into modern design. For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

She also paints a larger context of asylums such as Friern, which were a Victorian invention. Historian recollects the demons of her own past in ‘The Last Asylum’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps take them on a trip to back to Victorian times or a journey to the Ice Age? Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

Ruskin denounced Whistler’s circa-1875 depiction of fireworks over the Thames as “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” — an indignant Victorian’s version of “my kid could paint that.” At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints

What it comes down to, for her — and for Henry James and the Victorians, and even Felix — is some inherent, transformative value in aesthetic experience. ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

And like the gender-segregated seasides of the Victorian era, everyone, as far as the eye can see, is a woman. What exactly is a beach read anyway? Summery, sexy — or sexist? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

A copy of the elaborate Victorian wedding gown will be designed and sewn. The Secrets of a Sacred Underground 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

But campaigners launched on an online petition to save it that is supported by the Victorian Society. Campaign to save listed Manchester building continues 2012-07-10T13:37:09Z

The title "Keepers of the Flame" was a reference to those in Victorian times who attempted to preserve pure images of the departed. Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the "unauthorized" biography 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The Darlings also have been transported forward in time, from Victorian England to modern-day Tulsa, Okla. Soon Wendy will travel to Neverland, accompanied by her younger half brother, Michael, and eventually Lily. What if Wendy and Lily Voted Peter Off the Island? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

But the Victorians were obsessed with grief and grieving. "Miss Scarlet & the Duke" creator on the reality of Victorian women & hopes for the show's future 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

The glass houses at Kew also embody this Victorian passion for nature – the Palm House is a kind of scientific installation, a representation of a jungle made of living jungle plants. Call of nature: when art imitates life 2011-08-24T11:21:17Z

No Victorian salon was complete without one, and, in an age before TVs and Jacques Cousteau, they provided a living tableau to kindle the imagination with visions of submarine landscapes and amazing creatures. The Ocean at Home by Bernd Brunner - review 2011-08-26T21:55:04Z

Nearly 700 housing units with free utilities and low rents averaging about $17 a month replaced the former neighborhood of mostly modest Victorian residences. Taking the long view of First Hill, ca. 1940 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Bolinas mostly calls to mind its population of crusty bohemians, or its rows of old Victorians. Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

A colorful Victorian, the house is wedged between new 1930s developments, which Rockwell rendered in a bleak grayscale. Behind the scenes of You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

More quietly, there is the plight of Victorian paupers, starving to save pennies for something better than the workhouse pit or the dissecting table. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I'm not convinced it ever truly did stem from one, really, with its mix of 1950s formality and oddly polite Victorian parlour game, yet it was a gentle, endearing illusion. Some radio voices never age. Sadly, their owners do 2010-08-04T08:52:00Z

She showed off her rings, the stacked Victorian snakes that she wears like twin talismans. The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Almost too many: I sometimes got a bit lost in the Victorian gloom. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z

Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/39cba In this seductively melancholic Victorian painting, a lovelorn woman sails to Camelot, the legendary castle of King Arthur. Fateful journey: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse 2012-07-30T10:47:44Z

Monthly training classes in the Victorian art of self-defense are offered by the Bartitsu Club of New York City in a studio on West 18th Street. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Before puberty, at the beginning of our friendship, we would lie in the darkness in parallel sleeping bags, on the third story of the Victorian house that his father had renovated to splendor from shambles. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Back in the Victorian era there was Sherlock Holmes, a forerunner of both the 20th-century private eye and his superhero cousins. Film: An Old Pairing: Summer and Movie Sequels 2010-06-11T04:28:00Z

You sense the depth in the woman's character here, and again, the opal's colours seem the perfect symbol of her complexity: simple sugar-white, luxurious gold and that delicate, grandmother-ish, Victorian violet. Poem of the week: 'My Grandmother's Opal' by Grevel Lindop 2010-12-27T09:00:03Z

Hence all those Victorian riots celebrating the rise of the urban proletariat.” Texas Monthly: Austin Writer Jacqueline Kelly Turns to ‘Willows’ Sequel 2012-10-21T02:53:58Z

"Given that his Victorian forebears were responsible for London's sewerage system," he wrote, "surely it's fitting that he's keeping up the family tradition by smearing excrement over our screens." Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z

Victorian landscape painters, already prone to over-egging their palettes, must have given thanks for the dust cloud from Java. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Ray’s sensibility was somewhat Victorian, Ms. Sussman said, “not only in her dress but in some of the things she treasured.” On the Runway Blog: Ray Eames: How She Dressed 2011-12-12T19:54:22Z

Egg rolling, a bonnet competition and a giant Victorian robot feature in this north-west England Easter bonanza. This week's new events 2013-03-30T06:00:23Z

Shadowy figures in Victorian dress emerged, one by one, over the crest of a hill, carrying flickering lanterns. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z

Take, for example, paintings by Victorian traditionalist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Camden Town impressionist Walter Sickert which now hang alongside each other. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

Though with Dower as narrator a Victorian voice is necessary, the book’s style compares unfavorably with that of classic 19th-century writers such as Anthony Trollope and Louisa May Alcott. ‘Fiendish Schemes’: a wild and whimsical steampunk sequel 2013-12-11T18:47:31Z

"Victorians had all these different meanings using floriography, the language of the flowers," series creator Rachael New said in an interview with Salon. "Miss Scarlet" and the case of the Victorian outsiders 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Situated on a hill overlooking Kennesaw Mountain, this Victorian gem is the oldest home in Marietta, Georgia, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Own a Piece of History in Marietta, Georgia 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Of course there are, as well as the fictional histories of periods like the Victorian era, there are also enormous quantities of stories written about the future. Alan Moore conjures up an extraordinary antichrist: Harry Potter 2012-06-18T13:14:32Z

It influenced many icons of Victorian literature and art. New Emma Lord mystery, fairy tales and a book of poetry 2014-03-24T19:27:29Z

Today, the Blitz’s legacy is seen in places like Wapping and the Barbican complex, in the absence of pretty Victorian homes and the plethora of Brutalist postwar apartment blocks. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

While Victorian pomposity merchants were selling oily encumbrances by the cartload, Vincent van Gogh worked unknown, and unsold. Richard Hamilton's farewell, Frieze and Cotman paints France – the week in art 2012-10-05T13:37:48Z

Nestled in the busy downtown, its four buildings include an Art Deco suites hotel and a couple of meticulously restored Victorians. Orlando Weekend Under $500 2010-11-24T19:21:00Z

If a place can have spirit, then St. Pancras itself will remember its waves of history, the grand salons of the Victorian hotel and the sumptuous booking hall. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Her 1920 poem “First Fig” became an anthem for a generation tired of Victorian mores: In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Any serious scholar of the Victorian Age faces a tricky balance sheet of profit and loss. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

In the reputation-obsessed Victorian age, social ruin wasn't just a matter of weathering a few spiteful gossips, but could destroy one's life. "Miss Scarlet" and the case of the Victorian outsiders 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Within walking distance of most of Winter Park’s dining and activities, the chateau offers modern lodging with a slightly Victorian twist. For the quieter side of the Rockies, go west 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Victorian cottages we slept in had once housed the political elites of Ottawa society and their celebrity friends. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The treatments take place under decorous white sheets, in a private medical clinic above a plush Victorian sitting room. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? review 2012-05-17T17:09:53Z

Tom Hanks alone appears and reappears as a cackling Victorian doctor, a slovenly Scottish hotelier, a tattooed tribal elder and a roustabout Irish novelist, complete with diamond stud and silver chain. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-21T21:03:01Z

Sohal also uses Victorian shoe buckles and combines them with leather to form feminine cuffs that don't look overtly antiquated or ornate. Designers incorporate vintage and throwaway objects into jewelry lines 2011-06-24T18:39:48Z

From Victorian times onwards, dinosaur fossil collecting has always been popular but there has been a recent trend of the rich and famous seeking out the big boys. Dinosaur heads, antiques and Victorian curios to feature in London art fair 2010-06-02T16:20:00Z

On the one hand, there are the academic conferences, usually hosted by a university, centred around a particular theme in Dickens or Victorian literature, and comprised almost exclusively of professional scholars. The Dickens Universe: a tale of two traditionally separate audiences 2010-08-06T08:15:00Z

He is a liminal, anachronistic presence with his Victorian hand gestures and melancholy droop. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Gig reviewers tend to describe crowds at boy-band shows in a tone of puzzled alarm, like Victorian anthropologists observing some gory and baffling ritual. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z

One of the most entertaining revelations in the exhibition is a young woman who began as a tarty 16th-century Venetian beauty and became a model of Victorian modesty. National Gallery: an art exhibition where nothing is what it seems 2010-06-29T16:06:00Z

Avoiding cliches of Victorian London proved hard, however. London gets star billing in new Sherlock Holmes series 2010-07-25T09:00:00Z

Royal children apparently exist in some kind of ageless, fashion-less vacuum, like Victorian ghosts. When a royal child misbehaves, a mother is blamed. She shouldn't be 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

Only in the Victorian era did its contemporary meaning come into widespread use. Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Bagehot’s actual books are mainly collections of this journalism, but they include such classic studies as “The English Constitution” and “Lombard Street,” the latter an improbably scintillating overview of Victorian banking and investing. Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Walk or have your taxi drive past the Secretariat, the spectacular Victorian brick labyrinth and former colonial government headquarters where General Aung San, father of Burmese independence, was assassinated in 1947. 36 Hours in Yangon, Myanmar 2014-02-07T15:22:35Z

Photograph: David Levene In the 1960s, local authorities and urban improvers looked at Victorian terraces and declared them slums. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

On a recent evening, the place felt frozen in time, with horse-drawn carriages rolling down a main street lined with Victorian buildings and flower beds. 36 Hours in Niagara-on-the-Lake 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

It’s an uncomfortable Victorian thing upholstered in anemic pea green. The Virtues of Shelf-lessness 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

He says his "mania" for collecting began at the age of seven with Victorian coins, "which cost almost nothing". 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z

In her 1968 collection of essays, “Victorian Minds,” she praised the role that evangelical Christianity had played in supporting mass democracy. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Farcical, tongue-in-cheek and often just plain silly, “The Gentleman” pays homage to late Victorian melodrama and in its tone aspires to a P.G. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

And growing up in a strict Korean home, I felt like there were so many parallels to the strict, conservative Victorian England Jane lived in. Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Inevitably, to a modern, secular audience the dilemmas of the Victorian Catholic novel can seem faintly ridiculous. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Fort Place B&B There are three en suite rooms, each on their own floor, in this looming Victorian B&B a couple of blocks from the ferry terminal. Manhattan transfers: New York’s boroughs by ferry 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

“He was a state-of-the-art, media-savvy journalist,” Dr. Yochelson said, “but in his sentimentality and in appealing to the Christian conscience he was a creature of the Victorian, rather than the Progressive, era.” Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Based on design sources as varied as Victorian wallpaper and Renaissance tapestries, the backgrounds can look as if thousands of curling petals had somehow been blown into geometric formations across the canvas. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Tales From the Crypt: Horror on Hallowe’en” will feature dramatic readings of stories from the 19th century as well as tales of ghost sightings at the house, told in parlors decorated for a Victorian funeral. Spare Times for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Santa Fe Opera also is preparing for the premiere in 2021 of an opera set in Victorian England based in part on “Dracula.” Santa Fe Opera announces plans to stage world premieres 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

But the abiding memory will be of bloodsoaked bodies arising from banquet bowls, and canvas apertures suggesting that we are gradually retreating to a Victorian theatre of spectacle. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z

A popular Victorian idea, this is a display of tree stumps and roots presented as a form of grotesque sculpture. Perspective | Why the shade garden is so underrated — and how to create your own 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

In the summer of 1870, many Victorian Londoners who loved a good yarn were engrossed in the latest serialized novel by Charles Dickens, the most popular and esteemed fiction writer of his day. Left hanging by Dickens' 'Edwin Drood'? 2 takes coming our way 2012-04-04T20:36:04Z

Panto has its origins in commedia dell’arte, royal masque and the peculiarities of Victorian theater licensing. Silly Season: How British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

The architect designed it by imagining what a building in a Victorian sci-fi novel would look like. ‘Los Angeles is the globe in a small space’: author Ryan Gattis 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Rainbow is an account of how the Victorian era gave way to the modern age. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z

One final example shows that the biblical epidemic of crotch grabbing had not entirely died out in the Victorian era. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z

Wicked Lit: The Doll Unbound Productions presents a site-specific staging of this Victorian Era terror tale, paired with a reading of a different short play. L.A. theater openings, July 6-13: 'The Orphan of Zhao' and more 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Her inner goth — as a teenager, she listened to Joy Division and Christian Death — was on display in the form of a Victorian collar. 2010-02-06T02:21:00Z

Underneath the Victorian cloak of unctuous morality, sex was everywhere—except in the marriage bed, Victoria Woodhull argued. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

Six-foot-tall nutcrackers, a life-size Nativity display and a Dickens Victorian Village: These are some of the ways that Ohio says ‘Merry Christmas!’ Christmas in Ohio: Nutcrackers, Victorian village, Nativity 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

This weekend of super-retro entertainment in the Essex countryside seeks to replicate the fun and grandeur of a genuine Victorian country house May Day event. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z

They depict Wilde undergoing the Stations of the Cross, complete with gilded halo, in the style of a Victorian police gazette. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

But Potter's genius was in his ability to create an entire miniature world, the world of a Victorian village which he knew intimately. Genius or grotesquery? The arrestingly strange world of Walter Potter 2010-10-08T17:37:00Z

Not that the church can any longer be trusted as a steward of this Victorian vision. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z

The viselike grip of ecclesiastical control was clearly loosening in Victorian England. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

You note that in Victorian times, fear of blasphemy gave way to fear of impropriety. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on Euphemisms and Comfort Words 2011-01-10T08:35:00Z

Yet this once powerful alliance of beauty and morality, so persuasive to many of the great socially conscious Victorians, has been almost entirely lost from view. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z

It is by now an oddity, a Victorian house and a working farm tucked down a lane in Dublin's southside suburbs. The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - review 2012-11-23T22:55:01Z

Fallon’s informative introduction briefly tracks how the Victorians’ study of geological strata and fossils led to the discovery of “deep time.” Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

For all their surface conservatism, then, Shaw's paintings are a repository of imagined narratives as rich in their way as any pre-Raphaelite tableau or allegorical Victorian landscape. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z

A walk down the hall brings them to the renovated high Victorian Old House Chamber, providing a glimpse of the 19th century. State House restoration to be complete in December 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Nigel Maister’s libretto is based in part on the writings of the Victorian adventurer and Egyptologist Amelia Edwards and takes place in 19th-century Egypt and ancient Nubia as well as the present day. Joshua Bell at Caramoor, and Alarm Will Sound at the Met 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Although it looks a little like a railway cutting, or some other prodigy of eccentric 19th-century rural improvement, this track predates the Victorians by hundreds, if not thousands of years. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z

The book explores the differences between a woman’s experience of Georgian and Victorian society and the masculine freedom to be found when social constrictions are eased. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

While other misogynists could well compete for the honor, the Victorian gynecologist was the woman’s worst friend. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

More devastatingly, he finds himself sentenced to live past the Georgian era into the frowzy Victorian age, which could not suit him less, with its “sanctimonious” attitudes and “piety,” as he disdainfully proclaims. Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

An elaborate confection, it had hand-sewn seed pearls forming flowers cascading down the front and dozens of tiny satin-covered buttons in the back from which the train gently hung like a Victorian bustle. Arts & Leisure: MoMA to Showcase Cindy Sherman?s New and Old Characters 2012-02-16T12:00:00Z

It posits that Scrooge isn't the only nasty old Victorian skinflint in London who suddenly reclaims the Christmas spirit. Review: Seattle Public Theater production catches us up with Jacob Marley 2010-12-16T21:52:16Z

It is of course the older image, the regressive, patronising, sentimental Victorian painting of the "poor". Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z

It takes some effort to look past the offensive racial slurs and Victorian era gender roles. Watch the Trailer for Peter Pan Origin Story Pan With Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The battle to preserve and restore this Victorian Gothic masterpiece took decades, and many Londoners would agree that it’s now the jewel in the crown of railway terminals that encircle the capital. 36 Hours in King’s Cross, London 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Also, because the Victorian era was named after the reign of Queen Victoria, a tour of Kensington Palace, where she was born, is a highlight. Hotel and Tour News: Exploring Victorian London; Celebrating Soufflés 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Archangel Gabriel jogged in a light gray tracksuit and two lesser mystical beings argued in a Victorian bandstand. ‘Good Omens’ Unites an Angel and a Demon for Judgment Day 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

As she put it, “I was thinking more in terms of an action-adventure film with a female protagonist” than a Victorian maiden. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z

Many of his Victorian Christmas cards aren’t religious, nor do they seem festive at first glance. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Thompson had been accused of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance, author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal titled The King of the Golden River and The Secret Trials of Effie Gray. Emma Thompson wins Effie lawsuit 2012-12-19T16:44:31Z

From a Victorian delight, in other words, to, well, a modern-day horror. St Pancras Chambers: no place like home 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z

A Victorian home, center, made famous by the television show "Full House" is seen Friday, May 27, 2016, in San Francisco. 'Full House' property for sale if new family can swing $4M 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Sherlock fans who can’t wait for season 4 will have their appetites whetted by a new trailer for the forthcoming Victorian special. Watch Holmes and Watson Time-Travel in the New 'Sherlock' Trailer 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

After an amiable perambulation with the last of the Victorians, we build to a frantic cliff-top scramble as the Edwardians lose their grip on events and themselves. Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century Was Dealing With a Lot, Badly 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry bookshelf, full of copies from the 27 countries in which the series is translated I write in the attic of my Victorian house, where I've lived for 22 years. Francesca Simon: Where I write 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z

In some ways, that prose is what mainly survives today of “Eminent Victorians.” Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

There is much fighting, cool special effects and social commentary — a sort of Victorian X-Men. Versatile Tom Riley tackles sci-fi fantasy in ‘The Nevers’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

It’s the sort of thing you would expect to see at a Victorian game arcade, what with its wood pedestal, glowing spherical center and collection of mysterious wires. This couple created a machine to measure the strength of long-distance love 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Q: Why did so many Victorian writers — Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Henry James — embrace the ghost story? Otto Penzler puts the 'boo'! in 'Big Book of Ghost Stories' 2012-10-19T19:53:04Z

They are now in danger of returning to a Victorian naivety. Pubic hair removal: The naked truth 2011-02-11T07:00:02Z

Now there’s a pleasant riverside walkway with steel street furniture, cobblestones from Victorian Glasgow and maritime paraphernalia. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

The coy Victorian libertine look that rippled through the ’70s had more charm than contemporary spandex and Lycra, Mr. Silver suggests, though it was no less louche. Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z

Another way of putting this would be to say that the first half of belongs in the tradition of the Victorian novel, whereas the second half shows Lawrence moving towards modernism. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

Shuttered storefronts, bail-bonds operations and check-cashing establishments sit between its attractively refurbished Old Town harbor front and an arresting stock of Victorian homes. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z

“But I’m more drawn to mid-19th-century Siberia than Victorian England, which was his thing,” said Ms. Ellis, who has also created the art for nearly every Decemberists album. ?Wildwood,? a Book by the Decemberists? Colin Meloy 2011-10-11T17:28:57Z

This ancient tradition, said to bring prosperity and fertility, was already dying out in Victorian England, but continued in Ireland. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

The singer's father, mother and brother visited her home on Monday, stopping to inspect the mounds of bouquets, candles and handwritten notes across the road from the Victorian house. Winehouse autopsy inconclusive; parents thank fans 2011-07-25T18:59:00Z

This past Sunday, HBO debuted "The Nevers," a new Victorian steampunk fantasy drama about a group of women with superpowers fighting against a stuffy English establishment: think of it as "X-Men" meets "Masterpiece Theater." "The Nevers" had the best-ever debut for an original series on HBO Max 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Silhouettes were as attenuated as a pen and ink drawing or drowned in enormous volumes; glittering rats chased their tails around Victorian coats; phantom hands reached across taffeta gowns; satin cracked from side to side. At Marc Jacobs: New York Fashion Week’s Haunted Ending 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a Swarthmore lounge where Buurma's weekly research seminar on Victorian literature and culture meets, Levine and a handful of other students recently settled into a cozy circle on stuffed chairs and couches. Giving literature virtual life 2011-03-22T17:48:29Z

The Dreadfuls made their names on the fringe with a string of shows riffing on all things Victorian, an obsession that resurfaced in their excellent BBC Radio series The Brothers Faversham. This week's new comedy 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

“It was a costume piece, French Victorian, with people overacting like crazy,” Lansbury recalls. Angela Lansbury coming to National Theatre next spring

Back When Theater Was Simply Unrolled Victorian theatergoers packed halls to watch canvases roll past. Antiques: Back When Theater Was Simply Unrolled 2010-12-02T22:24:00Z

So why is he starting with a Victorian farce almost no one has heard of? Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

The showdown between Ruskin and Whistler was, in miniature, the clash between Victorian earnestness and insurgent modernism. At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints

The big budget Chinese production brings together the Victorian age steam energy with high octane fight scenes. 1st in Chinese action trilogy premiers in Venice 2012-09-02T13:46:05Z

It is unique: a mundane and gloomily worthy Victorian novel called A Human Document, recreated, reinvented and retold, page by page, into the adventures of a man named Toge. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

I’d buy a moped and some suits, live in a Victorian house and go on long tropical vacations. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z

It followed with the certainty of Victorian rectitude that advanced societies had an obligation to assist the backward, to civilise the savage, a moral duty that played well into the needs of empire. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z

Albert Garrick is a Victorian magician turned assassin who prowls the shadows of London town doing his grisly work. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z

Besides yellow and brown, fogs were described by Victorians as “gray yellow, of a deep orange, and even black.” “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

His Mikado worked for the Victorians who, for the most part, ignored the parody and enjoyed the japanesery. The Mikado 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

Yet the room is strangely compelling, like a Victorian medical museum. On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z

The apartment was dense, dramatic, and opulent, with tassels here, inlaid cabinets there, splashes of leopard-spot upholstery and great white lilies wrought in Victorian embroidery. AD Remembers Fashion and Design Icon Oscar de la Renta 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The film, which debuts Friday on Amazon Prime Video, is a poignant and frisky biopic of the illustrator of anthropomorphized cats in Victorian England. New this week: ‘Finch,’ ABBA and ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Its subject is the connections between sex, violence and murder in Victorian days. Dance Review: At Royal Ballet, Debuts by Liam Scarlett and Wayne McGregor 2012-04-06T22:17:43Z

The effect — a glimmer, a trace — was luminous, as in a Victorian fairy painting. Trisha Brown Dances Animate a Scottish Landscape 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Their hosts — overseers, really — run the place like a dictatorship and foist bizarre requirements upon them, such as wearing bizarre costumes more suitable for a Victorian court than a survival shelter. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

When the scale and nature of the coalition government's spending cuts became known this autumn, critics reached for images from Victorian Britain, comparing the social consequences to some scene engraved by Gustave Doré. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z

The surviving Victorian wing of the hospital "would appear weak and out of place against the backdrop of a new building". Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z

We thought about them traveling from South Africa in a boat, arriving into different weather, different smells and sounds, wearing Victorian clothes or being expected to dress as “African.” Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

“I added the word ‘Victorian’ to our name to try and be different,” Andorola explained. After 40 Years of Fa-La-Laing, a New York Caroler Hands In His Bells 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

You can't see Goat and Monkey's latest show, The Seed, about Victorian plant hunters, which plays gardens in Sussex until next weekend but you can start playing the show online . What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-01T16:29:00Z

The Victorian actor Henry Irving said: "Speak clearly and be human" – but if you listen to his recordings, the boundaries of that are pretty vast. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z

Then, one day, I found myself at the Lilies in Weedon, Bucks – "by appointment only" – a 35-room Victorian mansion so stuffed with books that a visit occupied most of the day. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z

We looked like Victorian misfits sounding off, spitfires. Losing my twin 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

According to a recent article in Taste magazine, for example, “celery was the avocado toast of the Victorian era”. From pineapples to spaghetti – every era has had its own avocado toast 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

"Joke books tended to be quite varied," Dr. Bob Nicholson, Reader in History at Edge Hill University and an expert on Victorian humor, tells Mental Floss. 30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back Most computer database searches — where you use key words to retrieve documents — are based on something called Boolean logic. ArtsBeat: Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back 2010-12-03T22:49:00Z

With their complex narratives, poetic metaphors, references to times past, the Victorians appealed to a Postmodernist sensibility. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The library's curator of modern literary theatrical manuscripts, Zoe Wilcox, said Green was "exploring a subject which fascinates us today as much as it did the Victorians". Library appoints resident artist 2012-02-09T13:17:40Z

During my whole time there, he was working on an oil painting of his grandmother, portrayed as a young woman in a long white Victorian dress. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z

It seemed as if half the pubs I’d visited in Yorkshire were less than a year old, though others dated from the Victorian era, if not earlier. A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Back in the Victorian era, they were swimming so plentifully in the Thames that they became a poor man’s hearty meal. Tasting Victorian London, One Eel at a Time 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

In this case, our heroine was a feisty little girl, and the place she longed to escape was a foundling hospital in Victorian England. London Theater Journal: Firebrands 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

In reality, our working conditions are more like a Jack the Ripper film – we usually work in hospital mortuaries, some of which date back to Victorian times. Forensic pathologist Stuart Hamilton on Silent Witness 2011-01-09T22:15:00Z

Photograph: Kathryn Ferry/Victorian Society Sherlock Holmes fans are celebrating the foiling of an attempt to convert the Victorian house of the great detective's creator into eight separate homes. Conan Doyle's home saved from redevelopment 2012-05-30T13:17:10Z

The Folger rarely has living writers on site, so Griffin gave Rebeck — who has a PhD in Victorian melodrama — a tour of the rare material in the Shakespeare library’s vaults. ‘Smash’ writer Rebeck brings a new ‘Way of the World’ to D.C. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Khanani points to a Victorian in New York’s Hudson Valley that she recently renovated. 7 mistakes homeowners make when renovating older properties 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In Wells’s story, the inequalities of Victorian society are magnified until they become obscene. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Lady Gaga, nominated for best pop vocal album for “Joanne” showed up in a dramatic, Goth-inspired midnight black gown with a high Victorian collar and sparkling lace. On red carpet, Grammys stars don white roses in solidarity with women 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Forgive the heresy, but to my mind the Rubaiyat – at least in English – is not great poetry: it's more a series of flowery Victorian Patience Strong-like verses reassuringly extolling the virtue of living for today. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women, The Genius of Omar Khayyam and A Long Weekend With the Son of God | TV review 2010-03-31T05:45:00Z

That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z

The difference is, there were still lots of Victorian buildings left but there are not many prefabs. Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished 2011-01-02T18:39:33Z

The Road Hill House Murder was to scandalise Victorian society, opening the door on the hidden horrors of social snobbery and ushering in the first modern detective - Jack Whicher. Guardian Book club podcast: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-02-08T13:50:40Z

The foyer of the establishment is a mini-museum displaying an old menu — lamb chops cost 90 cents in 1944 — and even a Victorian mirror acquired for the speaker’s office in 1858. Review | Now you can eat at the Capitol just like a U.S. representative: Badly 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

And in Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns and other books, the Potteries were portrayed as places of oppressive religious conformity, bullying Victorian patriarchs and philistine attitudes to art and literature. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

There was no prettified lightness or Victorian solemnity. Grant Park Orchestra captures rare Schoenberg with strong performance 2011-06-18T18:01:00Z

On the way to the necropolis across the river, I thought about the desecration described by Victorian travelers. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

It had all been down to her decision to wear too-tightly-fitting a dress, causing "something like a Victorian swoon". Joan Collins: my supermarket encounter with broken Britain 2011-08-25T19:00:01Z

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters For Nan King, the narrator of Sarah Waters's novel of the Victorian demi-monde, Canterbury has a special allure. Ten of the best trips to Canterbury 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

“We have this very Victorian idea of what a church is. But there’s something to be said about churches as radical spaces, in which dance just naturally becomes part of that radicalism.” Take Me to Church and Let Me Dance 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to make the questions that ensue sound like the stuff of Victorian melodrama: Does Anna dare to marry Mat, given her Past with a capital P? Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z

He was proved right: the Conservatives outlived their Victorian Liberal rivals to face Labour as they still do. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

As for the Rembrandt, "it was in a Victorian frame," Nye recalled. How a long-lost Rembrandt painting found its way to the Getty Museum 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Here, they can wander among scarecrows and jack-o’-lanterns, investigate a Victorian playhouse, pot up a ghostly-looking dusty miller plant to take home and put on a show with insect and owl puppets. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“You can taste it really: that era of late Victorian camp, high-church life.” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

There were capelets made of black crow feathers, tiny corseted jackets embellished with Victorian jet embroidery and brutal yet immaculate tailoring. The Alexander McQueen I knew, by Vogue journalist Harriet Quick 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

Many are connected to Emily: on the other side of the wall, Emily is a little child in a well-to-do Victorian family, with casually cruel parents. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z

The gracious and witty Alan Selka, who has been with Evans for many years, occupies a room that is crammed to Victorian perfection with his favorite things, which include an old-fashioned Victrola. | At Home With Robert Evans 2010-10-27T12:30:00Z

Turkey dinners became an increasingly popular main dish at Christmas throughout the Victorian era, though it was often prepared in an unusual way and side dishes could be quite odd, if not downright gross. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Imagine traveling back to Victorian England — only with vaccinations, a wad of cash and a clean set of ruling-class garb. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Hari Kunzru's Searchers in the Desert 2012-03-09T18:53:02Z

Here, with a company of international and local artists, he transforms the shops of the faded Victorian seaside town into something surprising. This week's new theatre 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Straining to hoist the new medium of photography into the artistic pantheon, a number of Victorians constructed elaborate tableaux that were modeled on paintings or literary classics. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

One of the most creative of their five sites is Old Paradise Yard, inside a former Victorian school complex. As Rents Rise, Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

As always, Sharp takes on potentially sentimental subjects with a tone which is almost shockingly unsentimental; never has the trope of a Victorian drawing master romancing his sheltered female pupil been rendered less romantic. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The language ranges from Victorian pastiche to modern vernacular and inanity. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

The extensive collection traces performing arts from the medieval period to the 21st century, with stops along the way for Restoration drama, Victorian drama and interwar drama. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

The room had white walls and low beams, stained black in Victorian times. ‘When we can, we’d love to throw a party to show it off’: designers on their lockdown DIY 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

In other ways, of course, Dickens the Victorian is very far from us. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

"But it is what is underneath that is so moving - because he examines and pokes fun at a deep callousness and repression that was there in the Victorian period." Nigel Havers recaptures his youth 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

The naval and seafaring traditions of Britain are the wellspring of Turner's imagination, but like Turner and his vision, this tradition, and Victorian Britain are receding into clouds of glory. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Kathryn Hughes is writing a book about famous Victorians' body parts. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z

The Crown Liquor Saloon is a treasure: a Victorian gin palace that’s been beautifully restored by its owner, the National Trust. What to Do in Belfast, Northern Ireland 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Whistler's touchingly subtle portrait of the little girl Miss Cicely Alexander – otherwise known as Harmony in Grey and Green – is shoved in a corner and then further obscured by a kitsch Victorian statue. Walk Through British Art – review 2013-05-18T14:59:01Z

Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters After the sinking of the Victorian liner, Queen Mary, a baby girl with "hair the colour of lightning" is found floating in a cello case in the middle of the Channel. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z

Taking place in its Victorian walled garden, the event will include cooking demonstrations, talks and a market featuring area restaurants. 10 Festive Hotels in Europe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Turns with the local operatic society followed; he also performed at the end of the pier, miming to songs and delivering Victorian comic monologues. Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Last year Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” video made subtle allusion to the film when she donned a Victorian white dress similar to the ones worn by the women in the film. What came before ‘Daughters of the Dust’: A new series focuses on little-known works from black female filmmakers 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Dr. Brooks became known to a wide public in the mid-1970s, after he agreed to let the director Milos Forman film “Cuckoo’s Nest” on location at the hospital, a Victorian behemoth that opened in 1883. Dr. Dean Brooks, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Doctor, Dies at 96 2013-05-31T23:57:18Z

It tells of a workshy writer, inclined towards paranoia, who discovers that there is a Victorian man living in the walls of his flat conversion. This week's new theatre 2013-03-16T06:00:14Z

Elsewhere, art ranges from kitsch Victorian paintings of kittens to 1960s ceramics. Lille wonder: a whistle-stop tour of a Franco-Belgian jewel 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

As a historian, he looked back to the Victorians, for whom readable prose was as crucial as archival research, and, like those old-fashioned moralists, he was fond of hierarchies. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Give him a butterfly net and he could pass for a louche Victorian botanist. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z

Shirley is a demonic genius, and also the modern incarnation of a Victorian madwoman. ‘Shirley’ Review: A Writer as Scary as Her Stories 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

For those interested in the real-life inspiration behind Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins, this is an invaluable work of anecdotal and cultural history. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

Although the striking, 3D images have been called "holograms", they are in fact the result of an optical illusion pioneered in the Victorian era. Elvis to be digitally recreated 2012-06-07T09:21:20Z

Brass finials are the finishing touch, a nod to the classic metal beds typically found in Victorian summer cottages. A New Shelter Island Hotel 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

For a lot of late Victorians who lost their faith, there was always a searching to fill the vacuum. Meet the magician behind Sherlock Holmes 2011-11-13T04:57:31Z

Like all other types of pigeons, fancy pigeons, even the ones that appear to wear high Victorian collars and ruffled booties, derive from the rock, or common, pigeon. Parlor rollers, pouters and mookees: Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

And the Victorians weren’t the only ones throwing good money at bad meals. From pineapples to spaghetti – every era has had its own avocado toast 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

In June, seeking immersion in nature, we visited the Lost Coast, the largely roadless shore between the indiscernibly tiny town of Rockport and the Victorian charmer Ferndale, about 100 miles apart by inland roads. On California’s Lost Coast: Sea Lions, Surf and Squiggly Roads 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

It was a world away from Victorian ladies and their flower drawings. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Dealer consortiums have taken over half a dozen former warehouse sites along a sleepy canal where Victorian manufacturers used to fill barges with door hardware and embossed linseed wallpaper. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

Self-help books advised Victorian housewives about how to decorate their bedrooms. The bizarre social history of beds 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

I fake a coughing fit and hack like a tubercular Victorian, all over those two gorgeous, declarative lines. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

But Arthur Boyd Houghton, a less well-known illustrator, produced the most compelling and atmospheric images – masterpieces of Victorian book illustration. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

That sounds ridiculous, but you can really do that with Cromwell, because the Victorians arranged his archives in day order. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Nonfiction Version of Thomas Cromwell’s Life 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

For four decades he has been collecting almost anything that the Victorians enclosed in glass domes, including wax desserts, feather bouquets, windup toys and taxidermied pets. Antiques: Victorian Collections Capture Worlds Under Glass 2013-06-13T20:01:05Z

A constellation of Victorian lanterns twinkles above not only the playing area, but also the audience. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

This is not the Victorian age, when we wanted to allow the impoverished access to literature. Libraries 'have had their day', says Horrible Histories author 2013-02-13T14:38:14Z

She has carefully removed the later additions, restoring the original Victorian appearance of the gown. Ellen Terry's beetlewing gown back in limelight after ?110,000 restoration 2011-03-11T18:32:01Z

By the Victorian era, Art and Myrtle Mumby live in Larklight, a ramshackle old house that orbits in the deeps beyond the Moon, with British Standard Gravity to keep their feet on the ground. Steve Cole's top 10 space books 2011-08-10T14:45:06Z

Despite the 80-degree heat, many of the guests wore Victorian funeral costumes. ‘An empty tomb’: Former Corcoran staffers hold ‘funeral’ for museum

They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He slogs through rural antiques fairs and makes a few hundred or thousand dollars a day, identifying unmarked Victorian glass hyacinth vases and colonial blanket chests to resell at a profit. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z

The handful of owners who succeeded the originals were careful to preserve its Victorian atmosphere, though that became less of a choice than an obligation when the interior was declared a landmark in 1975. The Return of Gage & Tollner, a Victorian Haunt With a New Vibe 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Having averted disaster, the three answer a call from Victorian London where a T.rex is pacing the Thames, as so many things do in "Doctor Who." Deep breath, 'Doctor Who' fans, Peter Capaldi up for adventure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Modern Love à la Shaw, From His Life In a Victorian London galvanized by “A Doll’s House,” a rake is caught between the woman he loves and the woman who loves him. Theater Review: ?The Philanderer,? From the Pearl Theater Company 2012-01-31T22:21:13Z

Two years ago, I was in the United Kingdom working on a follow-up project for my books “Black London” and “Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.” “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Writing in Victorian England, in that age of stern hypocrisy and repression, Pater gleefully expounds on the sexual adventures of the great Renaissance artists, openly praising gay desire. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z

They are arrayed in categories with labels like “Art Deco Enamels” and “Victorian Bean Backs.” When Form Meets Function: Cuff Links Throughout the Centuries 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Yohji Yamamoto also followed the high crown hat and Victorian values of tailoring — shown, as ever, on a selection of “real” men, from skinny to portly. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z

“Dark Angel” doesn’t offer much beyond garden-variety sociopathy and a generic weariness with the uselessness of men, the hard lot of Victorian women, and repeated rounds of childbirth and child burial. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Tomokazu Matsuyama, born in Japan and living in Brooklyn, blends colors, patterns and styles — from Japanese traditional to Victorian to contemporary. In Miami, the Murals Are the Message 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Brief flashbacks to the humiliations of his trial and the balm of opening-night adulation — represented by a sea of ecstatically applauding Victorian toffs — interrupt these peregrinations and underline the tragedy of his fall. Review: In His Last Years, Oscar Wilde Is Far From ‘The Happy Prince’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps Bloomberg’s decorator could take inspiration from Victorian taste, and get that stitched upon a tapestry throw cushion. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Finally, an enjoyable half hour Googling Victorian babyfarms for the novel. How to write a novel 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

In a tangle of shoeboxes and 1920s lingerie abandoned in a garage I once dug out a Victorian gold pendant with a red stone. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

“Angelica” gussied up the Victorian ghost story with some postmodern pyrotechnics. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z

He solved the bleakness problem by imagining “Drood” as a show within a show performed in a Victorian music hall. ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Dickens’s Unfinished Novel 2012-11-25T00:40:06Z

In his other books, he has skittered through history and across the English-speaking world, from Victorian London to 1970s New York to the early America visited by Alexis de Tocqueville. Peter Carey’s Literary Hack 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The company was apparently in the business of making copies of books that would look good on a Victorian library shelf -- here's their version of Tennyson's poetry from 1885. The true story of J Lo's 'first edition Iliad' in 'The Boy Next Door' 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

And there's still that literary, pictorial side to Rodin's work, which we find in Victorian painting. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

“Gone Girl”—spoiler alert!—pulls the curtain back on the Victorian fears that drive those tabloid suspicions. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The technique's heyday came in the Victorian era, as biologists studied stuffed creatures, and the general public, in museums and private homes, appreciated their aesthetic qualities. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In 2001, “The Kittens’ Wedding” was shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as part of the exhibition “The Victorian Vision.” The Bride and Groom Are Kittens. At Death They Did Not Part. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

You sign up for “Dear Holmes” online, but the rest of the game is purely analog in the form of paper letters, sent to you the Victorian way — by post. With These Literary Puzzlers, the Game’s Afoot (and in Hand) 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

She bought gilded plaques that were supposedly from 16th-century Italian churches but that were actually Victorian, and her Renaissance furniture is a mix of 16th- and 19th-century oak. Antiques: Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont as Impulse Buyer 2010-05-06T20:50:00Z

Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian They were tired, chaotic Victorian galleries that few ventured into – and when they did, visitors would be lucky to find the way out. New National Museum of Scotland unveiled after ?47m revamp 2011-07-27T23:05:04Z

This time, though, the show will take place in Victorian England when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the original series and be what creator Steven Moffat calls a “proper ghost story.” These Are TIME’s Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2016 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

She lives, she thinks, like one of those secondary characters in Victorian literature who constantly retire to the fainting couch. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

This production by Kevin Newbury tries to make sense of the complex tale of jealousy, betrayal and supernatural forces by placing it in a Victorian context rife with sexual anxieties. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The Victorian writer’s version of the New Testament presents Jesus as a sort of benevolent magician. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

My room, Suite Three, was in the historic house; it was compact but comfortable, with 11-foot ceilings and ornate Victorian millwork painted glossy black. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: the Hotel Saint Cecilia in Austin, Tex. 2010-04-29T19:45:00Z

Not surprisingly, Elizabeth's joy in her late-found happiness is mixed with reminders of early hardships, and the notional rejection the form seems to demand produces some heavily mournful Victorian postures in many of the sonnets. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z

The Royal Cornwall museum sold two Victorian paintings, last summer, each fetching about £1m, for an endowment fund. Hands off our local museum collections 2011-01-14T18:30:38Z

George Bernard Shaw feared that the Victorian tendency to see Shakespeare as immune from criticism verged on “Bardolatry,” warning that “it is false admiration to worship him as an infallible demi-god.” Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Once a thriving port, hundreds of thousands of small, two-storey terraced houses were built in the Victorian era as the population climbed to a million. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Books about Victorian medicine are an acquired taste. The Story of How Surgeons Cleaned Up Their Act 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope Trollope's anatomy of late Victorian England shows its up-to-dateness by having its heroine travel on the underground. Ten of the best: scenes on London Underground 2011-03-05T00:07:17Z

Her character drove much of the action in what many saw as a "wayward" storyline, opening with a dinosaur stranded in Victorian London, and encompassing spontaneous combustion and robots harvesting human remains. Thumbs up for Capaldi's Doctor 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

In giving the photograph its due, the Victoria and Albert Museum is living up to the vision of its Victorian founders, who embraced all aspects of design and invention and all places and times. Victorian visionary of the 21st century: the V&A embraces photography 2011-07-19T13:41:01Z

The distractions along the Great Victorian Rail Trail are many, as the path runs through remarkable scenery: wetlands and farmland, over bridges and through valleys, past cows and Clydesdales and, yes, kangaroos. Cycling Along the Great Victorian Rail Trail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

The show flows backwards over 500 years, from Freud to Matisse to Edgar Degas, then to the Victorians such as Lord Leighton, and English court and portrait painters, notably Joshua Reynolds and Anthony Van Dyck. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

For many Victorians in both the United States and Britain, those parlor gatherings were a passing diversion, but for others, efforts to commune with the dead proved more sustained and far more serious. The Victorian Women Who Pierced Glass Ceilings by Speaking to the Dead 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

And sometimes he does too much, as when he uses theatrical uplighting to turn a scattering of small academic bronzes into a Victorian shadow play. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z

Neely Mansion Victorian Famhouse Christmas SUN Tour historic Victorian farmhouse decorated for the holidays, gift shop, proceeds benefit continuing restoration, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2012-11-29T02:36:57Z

Even after graduating, well into his career, the comedian was studying for an as-yet-unfinished Phd on the Victorian sexualisation of children. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z

He did nine books in his "Treasury of Victorian Murder" series of 19th-century crimes. Comics: "The Axe-Man of New Orleans" 2010-07-20T18:03:00Z

I walked home with it tucked under my arm, this massive Victorian book in this massive Victorian town. A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

IRL: To me, renouncing social media altogether seems like my Victorian grandparents refusing to use the telephone. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sexy senior singleton seeks same 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

A friend of mine agreed to move into a Victorian house in Colorado for a month, only to find that one of the two dogs she’d be watching was a snarling hound of the Baskervilles. A Primer in House Sitting 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

A lavish Victorian home with carefully preserved Edwardian décor, it was constructed, as were many other homes in the area, on the premise of Port Townsend becoming the city of the future. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

I adapted this punch recipe from my friend David Wondrich, the cocktail historian, who borrowed it from Charles Dickens, who used it to mitigate the damp winters of Victorian England. A hot rum punch raises the thermostat 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The lodging is in Victorian Village, a scrappy neighborhood which police patrol around the clock. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Created in partnership with legendary game designers Valve using the same game engine as Half Life 2, the project will allow online players to roam around a stunning simulacrum of BAC's labyrinthine Victorian home. Live theatre is so over 2011-04-01T10:31:59Z

Written in an accessible, cod Victorian style it has a neat framing device. Charlie Higson's top 10 horror books 2010-09-08T10:53:00Z

It was a little cube, probably a Victorian boundary marker. Beyond Stonehenge, searching for Britain’s stone circles

Ms. Whittingham, a largely failed fern grower herself, started researching the topic in 1997, after stumbling on restored Victorian greenhouses stocked with ferns in Scotland. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z

In the fourth strand of the narrative, a young Victorian cartographer maps them. Your Last Breath ? review 2011-08-15T17:00:00Z

To be a single, upper-middle-class woman in Victorian times was to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. ‘The Fever Tree’: a Victorian epidemic in South Africa 2013-07-24T22:06:30Z

Best actor Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper and the cast of "The Elephant Man" will be taking the hit Broadway play about a severely deformed man in Victorian England to the London stage this summer. Bradley Cooper to take Broadway's 'Elephant Man' to London 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Housewives were warned of perils of errant ketchup with a cartoon featuring “Mrs. Dupagnac,” standing forlornly in her Victorian gown in her walk-in pantry amid bottles of the exploding condiment. At the National Archives, Life, Liberty and Carp 2011-05-31T23:42:50Z

In June 2013, he bought a Victorian mansion and turned it into a luxury bed-and-breakfast named the James Lee House. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Brown said the vendor, who is in his 60s, believes his parents bought the painting some time before World War II, when Victorian art was often dismissed as garish and sentimental. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

This began to change in the Victorian era, a time we now recognize as the start of the modern age in which old habits were rapidly shed and reconstituted into a new way of life. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The conjoined structures conjure up a Victorian matron wearing a bustle. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Rowlandson drew his saucy scene in the early 1800s, when louche attitudes still flourished, but by the Victorian age artists – at least in Britain – would be a lot more respectable, religious, and vague. Sex and the century: why the art of the Enlightenment was so saucy 2013-01-04T14:46:41Z

The path was used by Victorian miners as a route to get to and from work. 10 days out for kids this summer 2011-07-22T12:19:04Z

Equally important, she places them in context within the beleaguered Victorian working class, struggling to survive in the brutal society forged by the Industrial Revolution. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

For English Heritage the situation is reminiscent of the 60s and 70s when thousands of Victorian homes were demolished, dismissed as impossible to renovate for modern life. Largest postwar prefab estate to be demolished 2011-01-02T18:39:33Z

Fascinating facts abound: Victorians favoured gloomy parlours in part because dark colours didn't show the soot. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-04-13T06:59:00Z

The book is based on ancient Hindu philosophies and was first translated into English in 1883 under the guidance of Victorian explorer Richard Burton. Aural sex 2010-08-04T17:19:00Z

In their formality and vocabulary, the speeches came from another era, Victorian perhaps. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z

Gone, too, were Victorian certainties and the confidence of an empire. 'The Great Silence': Britain's mourning and recovery in the wake of World War I 2010-06-02T22:39:00Z

In it, Dalrymple confronts us with the aloof, murderous, British imperial sensibility that culminated in the high Raj of the late Victorian era. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

Langlands is known to BBC audiences from his roles on shows like “Victorian Farm,” “Edwardian Farm” and “Wartime Farm,” where he and other participants lived and worked in historic settings for months at a time. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

The Historic Hyattsville House Tour will feature eight homes of various styles and periods, including a “Quartet of Victorians.” Calling all design enthusiasts and green thumbs: 2016 spring home and garden tours 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Dixon also found the $389,500 cap on Victorian defamation cases did not apply because Wilson’s case warranted an award of aggravation. Rebel Wilson wins $4.56m damages from Bauer in record libel settlement 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

The closer you get, the stranger it looks: The roughness of its red, worn, workaday surface is at odds with its Victorian pedigree. Atop the Met, a Haunting House 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

They began with those of Victorian social researcher Charles Booth, who painstakingly colour-coded every city street: pink for "fairly comfortable", dark blue for "chronic want", black for "vicious, semi-criminal", and so on. TV review: The Secret History Of Our Streets: Deptford; EastEnders 2012-06-06T21:00:01Z

One gallery here surveys the advances of the late Victorian era that made the modern detective possible. Exhibition Review: A Sherlock Holmes Exhibition Stops in Ohio 2014-02-14T23:25:09Z

"When I think now of a Victorian woman lacing up her corset, tying her garters and buttoning her dress, I think of a woman dressing sensibly for a hard day of work ahead." How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

L.B.I., as locals call it, is not as Victorian and proper as Spring Lake, but it was a lot more respectable than Seaside Heights, though without any claim to elegance. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z

She sat ramrod straight, wearing a high-necked emerald gown — there was almost a genteel Victorian sensibility to her restrained displeasure. Perspective | The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Imagine you were a cosseted Victorian woman stuck indoors with little or no mental stimulation or likelihood of any adventure. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

She first painted a small alcove black in her 1860s four-story Victorian, then became so entranced that she painted her entire interior and exterior black and filled her garden with furniture and accessories to match. New on the Block: The Little Black House 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Batchelor's USP is that he presents Tennyson as "more centrally Victorian" than previous biographers – which seems to me to be about as radical as calling the aforementioned Price "deeply tanned". Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z

During this period, America's middle classes generally embraced all things Victorian, from architecture to moral reform societies. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

Morris's delight in discovering a country where design was directed only at supplying basic human needs fuelled his future diatribes against the Victorian culture of excess. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

Two gifted young musicians, twins named Charlotte and Sonja, dazzle crowds playing their instruments in a vaguely Victorian traveling circus alongside their sort-of adoptive mother, a tattooed lady named Tatty. Top 10 YA Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

At the end there was a Victorian bride in sweeping white. Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Lucky for us, much is roiling under its leafy trees, inside its fine public schools and Victorian houses, home to 1,146 psychotherapists and 679 psychiatrists. ‘The Dogs of Littlefield’ review: Who’s poisoning the pets in this idyllic town? 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I won’t humor you anymore 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

And, of all the highlighted Victorian Goths amassed by "Penny Dreadful," none trumped the blood-sucking foe. Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Bakewell lives in a Victorian house in a lovely square in Primrose Hill, north London. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z

At the South London Gallery they chose not to demolish the Victorian house, which was derelict when they started the job. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Glasgow is a fine Victorian city, retaining much of the architecture and civic fabric lost in Liverpool and Newcastle. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z

This year she is a contender for “Albert Nobbs,” the story of a woman passing as a man, a mild-mannered butler, in Victorian Dublin. The Carpetbagger: Possible Nominees Look Toward Oscars 2011-12-14T23:41:05Z

In “The Nevers,” which debuts on HBO on April 11, she plays a Amalia True, the leader of a band of Victorian women who manifest unusual abilities. Laura Donnelly’s Week: ‘Dora the Explorer’ and a Poetry Prescription 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

However, Marryat portrays the vampire as a sympathetic figure, showing how upset and confused she is by her powers, challenging the preconceptions of the Victorian audience. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Why then do the Victorians have such a reputation for callous hypocritical economic attitudes? How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z

There are also books — such as “Victorian Architectural Details” by A.J. 7 mistakes homeowners make when renovating older properties 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Cheeky details like these recall the witty and absurdist tropes of the Victorian era, said Ms. Lock. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

He was sporting a retro dinner jacket, a bolo tie, and a vaguely Victorian haircut, and since unique style usually suggests independent thought, I was already intrigued. Perfecting the Art of the Cocktail 2012-04-05T21:50:00.863Z

Rejecting Victorian Britain's grim realities, the aesthetic movement strove to create a world of perfect beauty. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z

Based on this logic, the 18 Victorian forts and batteries that had protected the coastline from the French were youngsters. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Your dress looks like something worn by a Victorian girl who was murdered by her nurse. When Dressing for Work is Part of the Job 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Visitors can wander through the recreated streets, meet the Victorians or take a ride on the Clay Mine railway. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z

The beds were selected by London stage designer Joyce Evans, who sets the country house scene in 24 decadent rooms spread among a historic farmhouse, a grand Victorian, and a series of cottages. These Are the World's Most Romantic Hotels 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Victorian Era was the great period of nature illustration, and as Lear shuffled from relative to family friend to relative, he honed his skills as a draftsman. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

He meant the order of Victorians, Calvinists and Hebraists who emphasized conduct, duty and strictness of conscience over romantic and materialist rebellions, dialectical and otherwise. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Many years later, she tells the reader, "the Victorians saved me", and she immerses herself in Victorian fiction from East Lynne to Middlemarch, "with its ideals of womanly sacrifice and goodness". Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

Beginning with the steel railroad tracks cut through the region in the Victorian era, the movie draws a through line to the bulldozers of the present day. Review: ‘We Come as Friends’ Explores Potential Exploitation of South Sudan 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

That confection filled with candied dames force-feeding cats laxatives to retrieve lost Victorian lace. Bodice-rippers! How period drama went from buttoned up to sexed up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z

And even with artists like Florence and the Machine, there's almost that Victorian idea coming back of the hysterical woman. What happened to angry female music stars? 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z

You ascended a real, ancient staircase into a recreation of Labour's Victorian gloom-tank on Victoria Embankment. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z

“My style is definitely inspired by the Baroque and Victorian periods,” said Ms. Hunt, sipping a Japanese single-malt whiskey cocktail at the bar of the Modern, the museum’s restaurant. A Publicist and D.J. Who Nurtures Underrepresented Artists 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Nebraska, where the movie is set, was "not a really inviting place for a woman of the Victorian era", Jones said. At Cannes, Tommy Lee Jones turns the western on its head 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Since the 1970s, critical opinion has changed, and works by the best Victorian artists are coveted by collectors. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

It had also given Rees-Mogg “a reputation as a harmless, self-deprecating Victorian caricature,” he added. A Show That Laughs at Boris Johnson, and May Have Aided His Rise 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

In a more recent epoch, the writers of Victorian England, fogged over with puritan fears and piqued perhaps by bursts of scientific revelations, contemplated civilization’s fall to plague, beast and Martian. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z

But putting it back into Victorian times, you think it’s a chance to do a ghost story, really – a creepy, scary one.” Sherlock Christmas special trailer promises Victorian-era chills 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

She and Emhoff moved there last week after staying at Blair House while renovations were being completed on the 1893 Victorian house. Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area crochet scene 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

The Victorians wanted to see spirits of the departed. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

Are the modern day crime fighters visiting a film set as part of the plot, or will it be revealed that the Victorian Sherlock Holmes dreamed up his 21st century adventures? Benedict Cumberbatch Dressed as an Old School Sherlock 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

In contrast, the watercolors of saltboxes or a Victorian house abstain from the dazzling effects this medium encourages. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

There are several traditional beach hotels in addition to Britt’s favorite, but it’s Victorian B&Bs that Cape May is known for. A beachgoer’s guide to the southernmost South Jersey Shore 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Aware of the average Victorians' affinity for ornamentation, Cadbury designed the boxes himself with sentimental scenes including idyllic landscapes, delicate flowers, and, reportedly, drawings of his own cherubic children. The Victorian origins of the heart-shaped chocolate box 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

When they write about the Victorians, what Strachey and the present-day panegyrists are really writing about is their own society. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z

A fantastical, Victorian world created in paper tableaux was a fitting and witty end to the London season. A Handbag Merry-Go-Round 2012-09-19T17:26:26Z

Apparently, so does the team behind the Attendant — a coffee shop in a Victorian “gentlemen’s loo” that had been lying unattended below Foley Street in Fitzrovia for half a century. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z

They weren’t “lost” in any melodramatic Victorian sense, and their families didn’t disown them. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

"But I'm more drawn to mid-19th-century Siberia than Victorian England, which was his thing," said Ellis, who has also created the art for nearly every Decemberists album. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z

Fall on hard times in the Victorian era and the dreaded workhouse beckoned. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

The skeleton at issue in Val McDermid's new stand-alone mystery, "The Skeleton Road," is discovered by an acrophobic demolition surveyor atop a Victorian Gothic school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Val McDermid's new whodunit rattles with recent Balkans history 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

"Round Victorian pies reflect the sense that no longer should we create divisions ..." TV review: The Great British Bake Off Christmas Masterclass 2012-12-18T22:10:02Z

One cover he did depicts a heavily porched, white Victorian house projecting purple shadows. Looking at the Field: Remembering James Stevenson 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

It covers the Victorian era to the present, and is particularly rich in images from the mid-20th century: the golden age of street photography in England, as in the United States. Art Review: ‘London Street Photography’ at Museum of the City of New York 2012-07-26T22:56:22Z

The displays are being assembled at the reopened Museum of Everything, a pop-up museum in a former Victorian dairy, and  later recording studio, in Primrose Hill, London. Genius or grotesquery? The arrestingly strange world of Walter Potter 2010-10-08T17:37:00Z

Farther south in Ironbridge Gorge — birthplace of the Industrial Revolution — the Blists Hill Victorian Town is an immersive slice of Victorian industry, with factories and a re-created community from the 1890s. Time-traveling at Europe’s open-air museums 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Its medieval street pattern carries fine Georgian and Victorian buildings, and it has a beautiful almost-cathedral, and an inspiring watery setting. Scale Lane bridge, Hull – review 2013-07-27T23:05:13Z

To contemplate the grandiose chiselled memorials to shipwrights, merchants and manufacturers in the Eastern Necropolis at Dundee is almost to breathe the air of the prosperous Victorian days of the great jute city. Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd 2010-12-30T00:05:09Z

There were no more snide jokes about Darwinism in Victorian England. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Her new memoir, “The Victorian and the Romantic,” about long-distance heartbreak and desire is published this month. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Victorian readers took to visiting the “homes and haunts” of the dead writers they loved. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Imagine a Victorian funeral parlor on wheels, complete with green velvet curtains and a row of glamorous chandeliers overhead — a B62 rerouted from hell. It’s Ghost Tour Season 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The farce takes a while to get going, and some of the minor roles are thinly written, but it will be a sad day if this piece of Victorian froth finally disappears from the repertoire. Charley's Aunt – review 2012-10-02T17:36:53Z

In Quebec’s Eastern Townships, poke around Victorian towns brimming with vintage general stores, century-old churches, country inns, antiques stores, gourmet restaurants and farmers markets. Why your next vacation should be in Canada 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Baldly summarised, O'Neill's plot sounds like one of those Victorian woman-with-a-past plays. Anna Christie ? review 2011-08-09T22:12:00Z

The English novelist, one of leading writers of the Victorian era, bought the home near the end of her life in December 1880. Former New York City Mayor Buys Mansion of Literary Icon 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

I was taken by ambulance to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, a beautiful redbrick Victorian pile in central London. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

In September the Virginia Museum will fill two galleries with gifts of English silver from the New York collector Rita Gans, including 1810s saltcellars shaped like sea nymphs and Victorian fluted wine coolers. Antiques: Bringing Out the Mummies at the Bass Museum 2010-04-29T20:57:00Z

The Gainsborough Bath Spa, which opened in July 2015, occupies two historic buildings with handsome Georgian and Victorian facades. Soaking in Luxury in Historic Bath, England 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The fall collection of the first runner-up in season five of Bravo's "Project Runway" drew from many inspirations: the Middle Ages, the Victorian era, and her own African heritage. Tradition meets modernity at Nigeria fashion show 2011-03-13T16:16:04Z

Bonhams auction house said it was "an unusual and entrancing work by arguably the most important Victorian artist of his generation". Council's artwork fetches ?74,000 2011-07-14T09:23:37Z

Mr. Kent relocated the story from the Victorian age to the Great Depression. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z

SAT-SUN Tours of historic Victorian farmhouse decorated for the holidays, 12:30, 2 and 3:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-12-04T23:56:57Z

“It was built during the height of Victorian grandiosity,” he says. | What Makes André Balazs Cry 2013-12-02T22:33:01Z

This book is set in a mysterious Victorian age full of power, secrets and enchantments! Reader reviews roundup 2013-05-10T08:48:15Z

And from Mr. Elizondo, there was the 21st-century equivalent of the Victorian cut direct: “He doesn’t want to talk,” a senior White House official said in an e-mail. A Guy as Keeper of the National Guest List? 2011-01-28T22:13:43Z

“By inflating a Dickensian tale to cosmic proportions, the enormous production seemed to imply that the audience were guilty of the Victorian injustices that led to Sweeney’s murderous acts of revenge,” Mr. Rich wrote. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

It's no coincidence that, in the 18th century, satire boomed with the establishment of modern parliamentary democracy, nor that it languished during the later Victorian era, during the mass-hypnosis of imperialist jingoism. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Choose from 11 rooms, each themed after a city in Texas, at this Victorian inn. A hometown girl goes looking for the quirky heart of Houston 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Take tuberculosis, another major killer in Victorian times. TB and scarlet fever: why Victorian diseases are making a comeback 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, “geography was a cutthroat enterprise in late Victorian Britain,” one that pressed the Antarctic expeditions forward. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z

He is a Victorian artist in that he was born in 1836, and he has always been hung in the Victorian galleries. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

Kevin Loader, our producer, gave me a book called “How to Be a Victorian.” Dev Patel Was Not a Dickens Fan. (Don’t Tell Armando Iannucci.) 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

I started getting annoyed and a bit resentful that I’d chosen to spend my evening inhaling dusty air on the floor of an old Victorian house. How one hour of slow breathing changed my life 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

"You could see what a stir that kind of thinking must have caused to devout Victorians," he says. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z

The charcoals — another Victorian and a boat on a wharf — are so strikingly solid and finished they might be graphite. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

Julia Fox was there, too, flitting through Friday’s events in a corseted white dress with her face painted white, looking like a Victorian ghost. At correspondents’ dinner scene, Vanderpump rules. (Too bad, Tucker.) 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

The groups support a conservation-led scheme which would retain the Victorian features and use the space for food markets, cafes and bars. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z

Six Burlington Gardens is recognised as one of the most significant high Victorian buildings in central London. New York art gallery Pace takes up London residence 2012-07-02T16:00:19Z

It was part of a project I did called The Institute of Esoteric Research, which mixed Victorian pseudo-sciences with old methods of divination. Photographer Victoria Jenkins's best shot 2011-01-26T23:46:38Z

Downey Jr looks down and sees a toothless ginger midget who, like everyone in Victorian London, speaks with a terrible Irish accent. Sherlock Holmes: Quick, old boy ? to the sequel! 2010-05-19T11:32:00Z

Housed in an architectural fantasia—the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel—that was designed by the restaurant’s Victorian namesake, the Gilbert Scott is a soaringly pilastered throwback to the glory days of the British Empire. AD’s Aesthete picks three restaurants where the interiors are as fantastic as the food 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Edebohls, who has honey blonde hair, favors movie star make-up, and has a love for anything Victorian, is comfortable talking about death, even her own. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

Our Airbnb was a modern, linear house, white with a cutout of weathered gray wood, on a not-quite-gentrified street lined with run-down Victorians. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

In this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel, a headstrong young woman in Victorian England attracts three very different suitors: a sheep farmer, a wealthy bachelor and a reckless soldier. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“If you sincerely investigate it, every detail hides reason, and any environment is far more sophisticated than our senses can appreciate,” former Washington Post reporter Monte Reel writes in a survey of Victorian explorer manuals. The best of literary magazines in three new collections

Located in Mendocino wine country, this property, called the East Ranch, was built as an exact replica of an 1885 San Francisco Victorian complete with a period floor plan, materials, and furnishings. Tour a Redwood Valley, California, Victorian 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Barks began spending his afternoons studying and rephrasing the Victorian translations that Bly had given him. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Last week his best guess was that it was "one of the Victorian novelists". The Killing: episode seven 2011-08-11T21:04:01Z

Séances, in the Victorian era, were gathering places where social structures were less rigid, Ms. Midorikawa said. Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do You? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Another big seller was a Victorian annual auctioned for £15,500 after volunteers in Oxfam's Harrogate branch correctly identified the first appearance in print of Sherlock Holmes in a story called A Study in Scarlet. Oxfam haul 2010-04-16T00:00:00Z

Scarlet fever is not the only Victorian disease making a comeback. TB and scarlet fever: why Victorian diseases are making a comeback 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

His memories become scenes from the novel, but this way it didn’t get bogged down in the Victorian language. ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

That wouldn’t have mattered if Owen weren’t one of the most powerful scientists of the Victorian era. The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the Dinosaurs 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

For there is no doubt in the mind of a good Victorian that the Dark Ages are past. That is another time and another kind of reality; it goes without saying. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The film historian William K. Everson suggested that “The Old Dark House” is best seen twice, the better to dispose of the plot and enjoy Whale’s atmospheric lighting and musty Victorian mise-en-scène. ‘The Old Dark House’ Is Creepy. Its Occupants? Downright Kooky. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The film will portray the two characters as rivals on opposite sides of the law in Victorian London during an episode in which someone tries to steal the crown jewels. Oliver Twist to turn crime fighter in Hollywood reinvention 2013-02-12T14:12:47Z

The cast and Roundabout Theatre’s Studio 54 are gloriously decked out in Victorian finery, the rousing mood is infectious. Theater On Broadway and Off, post-Sandy 2012-12-07T00:27:00Z

Kathryn Hughes’s latest book is “Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum.” Haunted by a Victorian Novelist 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It draws from the Wisconsin-based artist’s vast insect collection, and incorporates dried flowers, animal skulls and Victorian wallpaper design as well. August brings extravagance at Seattle art galleries 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

THE doorbell at James Mercer’s house — a spacious, tastefully appointed Victorian on a quiet residential street here — buzzes with an old-fashioned clang so loud it’s almost tactile. James Mercer and the Shins Return With ?Port of Morrow? 2012-03-16T16:12:29Z

Backstage at Karen Walker, the Bumble and Bumble styling team offered a mussed variation on Mrs. Simpson’s baroque waves, a kind of punk/Victorian hybrid. On the Runway Blog: Forties Hair Returns 2012-01-23T12:00:24Z

And they were drenched in the sort of sentimental idealism that people of the Victorian age evidently found irresistible. Art Review: ‘John Rogers: American Stories’ at New-York Historical Society 2012-11-08T22:14:24Z

For an example of MacGregor's wide-ranging tactics, consider the 92nd item: an early Victorian tea set, which leads to ruminations on such matters as high tea at 4 p.m. New book of '100 Objects' illuminates history 2011-11-17T00:26:06Z

But in this brilliantly coloured Victorian masterpiece, true work is sweatily physical. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

Stunning property set in a 19th-century Victorian palace, with Nile views, pool, gardens, dining on the veranda, fitness center and spa. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

In addition to ghoulish greats from the nation’s past, the event will offer fortunetelling, old-fashioned candy and opportunities to make Victorian mourning jewelry and to sit for an eerie portrait with a spirit photographer. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

What To Do on Rainy Days In Walterboro stroll through fine arts and crafts, all made by South Carolinians, in the South Carolina Artisans Center, which is housed in a rambling Victorian house. Backroads Guide to Carolina Lowcountry 2011-06-15T13:50:03.910Z

Today, the neighborhood’s Victorian buildings and their residents are long gone, paved over by corporate gentrification and racism. Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Home truths: two Victorian girls play with their dolls. Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-12T10:31:01Z

Daphne comes across as a bit primly Victorian, prickly and unyielding. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The liberated, adventurous Alice will from now on be trapped in stuffy Victorian England. Review: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ and a Trippy Time Machine 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Death creates orphans, the Victorians’ sprightly vehicle for social mobility — Oliver Twist, say, and Jane Eyre. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This collection of restored Victorian mansions and carriage houses set in the heart of thriving Midtown offers the best of both worlds, with hotel services and a B&B vibe. Detroit’s unexpected — and unexpectedly moving — outdoor art scene

“Common sense urges us to suppose that beneath the Victorians’ public postures of rectitude, formality and reserve, beneath the bustles and beards, lurked beings much like ourselves,” she writes. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

They glow in the sun and are strangely romantic, although they survive the Victorian mining heyday that exacted an enormous human toll. Cornwall’s stunning countryside holds everything from Iron Age wonders to Land’s End 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the article also risks normalising sexual pressure or even assault within relationships by re-affirming Victorian ideas about spousal responsibility for male sexual satisfaction. No, wives 'withholding sex' are not to blame for male violence | Laura Bates 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The local council's policy was clear, that development here should "respect" the listed buildings, and the Victorian part of the hospital has been restored and converted into a home for the university's music department. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z

I declare it time to hole up with some gloomy Victorian Gothic television, set in cold, damp and mostly sooty London. “Penny Dreadful” finishes strong: This sophisticated, evocative Victorian thriller appeals to fantasy and history fans alike 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

“When you first meet Tarzan, he’s buttoned up in a three­-piece ­suit in Victorian England,” he says. True Blood to Tarzan: how Alexander Skarsgård swung into Hollywood 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Similarly, her observations on the obsession of Victorian women with ferns include a social-psychological angle. Books of The Times: Ruth Kassinger?s ?Paradise Under Glass? 2010-05-16T21:37:00Z

The humour of the Victorian music hall bridled against church-imposed morality. Radio: Esther Waters, a gripping play about a Victorian girl's fight for survival 2013-03-09T06:00:06Z

In a Swarthmore lounge where Ms. Buurma’s weekly research seminar on Victorian literature and culture meets, Ms. Levine and a handful of other students recently settled into a cozy circle on stuffed chairs and couches. Humanities 2.0: Giving Literature Virtual Life 2011-03-21T22:33:37Z

“As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid,” he said. Possessed : The Artist Dustin Yellin is on the Lookout for the Dark Side 2013-07-05T18:40:34Z

It was owned by a Victorian schoolboy who stuck it into his album with glue. Royal stamp of approval: Exhibition unveils George V's guilty secret 2010-05-06T17:50:00Z

In a political landscape that ugly and brash, Frank’s panic over a photograph of his father with a Klan member seems positively Victorian. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The biggest single problem for us in making it Victorian was the female voice. 'Sherlock' Creator on Benedict Cumberbatch’s 1 Request for the Holiday Special 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

The city’s Planning Commission anticipated displacing thirty-four per cent of the residents and the razing of the neighborhood’s Victorian buildings. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

This exceptionally cute peninsula town with Victorian architecture hosts a variety of events from Nov. 25 through New Year’s Day, from Saturday farmers markets to train rides and a gingerbread contest. 10 Northwest getaways that put the ho-ho-ho in ‘holiday’ 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

As family fortunes rose and fell, the parlor might get a Victorian face-lift, or the threadbare attic bedroom might be rented to lodgers. Cultured Traveler: In London, Private Homes on Display 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z

She is playing four parts, including a Victorian general's wife, Lady Florentina Sale. 'Grief is like a tsunami' 2010-07-10T23:02:00Z

Inside the castle the Victorian household is preparing for Father Christmas's arrival. The best festive events for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

A digital locket, inspired by Victorian keepsakes, displayed video of a loved one on a loop. What happens to a person's Facebook posts after they die? One artist is using them to build digital memorials 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

More than two decades on, he heads a five-member studio with offices at London’s Imperial Laundry, a Victorian complex where royal unmentionables were once washed. Rooms With a View 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Archaeological research has identified the foundation of the original house under the area in front of a two-story Victorian structure built about 50 years after Monroe sold the property. James Monroe built Highland next door to Jefferson’s place 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

This building is hugely important to Manchester - both because of its association with Elizabeth Gaskell and as a rare remaining example of a Victorian suburban villa. Gaskell home gets £2m restoration 2012-06-13T08:42:06Z

Irish Victorian poet James Henry asked, before answering: "He, who gave the power / And will to sin, and knew both would be used." The Same Life Twice by Frank Kuppner – review 2012-08-24T21:45:03Z

There are characters who are decidedly vertical, whose carriage and movement vocabulary are born out of a Victorian formality. ‘Then She Fell’ Is Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Life and Work 2013-08-09T18:49:22Z

Victorian Country Christmas Festival: Victorian village with 560 stores including jewelry, art, tools, ornaments, toys, food vendors, entertainment, Santa visits, carousel, horse-drawn carriage rides, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Pearl Harbor Day, holiday crafts | Community Corner 2013-12-06T18:19:22Z

The occasion is the Winter Family Fair, a free virtual version of the Morgan Library & Museum’s annual homage to Victorian England. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The abbey was a monastery until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. It was rebuilt over the centuries and is now mostly an example of Victorian Gothic architecture. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Glasgow School, for instance, had flipped the country’s austere Baronial, Neoclassical and Victorian styles on their heads. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The coldhearted character warmed by the discovery of love is a trope that dates back to Victorian literature and beyond, and to her credit Ms. Cho does not allow George’s education to grow particularly sentimental. | 'The Language Archive': A Linguist at a Loss for Words Regarding Love 2010-10-17T22:14:00Z

A mix of old and new, the landmark building maintains its original nine-story Victorian atrium and pyramidal skylight. 7 New Hotels in New York City 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Madeleine Cravens, 26, a graduate student studying poetry at Columbia University, tweeted last Monday that the rising cases had revived for her an early quarantine pastime: going on “little strolls like it’s the Victorian era.” The Dreaded Return of the ‘Park Hang’ 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

At the same time, though, we might be reading a novel, a Victorian triple-decker thick with information about the organizing principles and deep contradictions of a complex civilization. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

While set in Victorian London, it clearly reflects the turmoil of Weimar-era Berlin — with fascism on the horizon. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

And it’s a fighting style developed, improbably, in Victorian England. Fight Like Sherlock Holmes: A Victorian Martial Art Makes a Comeback 2013-05-01T15:34:12Z

When I think “Victorian,” I think Melville and Dickinson: passionate, sardonic moral thinkers, too in love with beauty to be morbid. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

They outline and suggest the Victorian bric-a-brac architecture of the town’s houses and Main Street, rather than giving us the full picture. ‘Music Man’: Good times in River City 2013-02-15T22:22:43Z

The banal truth is that, as with every age, the Victorian period was a mix of greatness and littleness. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z

The pages are adorned with many enchanting Victorian line illustrations. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: What the Gift Shops Are Missing 2010-12-17T12:00:52Z

Homages to Victorian conservatories, these ethereal edifices are not only sculptural but also functional: Heat harnessed from the distilling process warms the two pavilions, which showcase the botanicals used to flavor the brand’s famous gin. Eight Daring New Buildings Around the World 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

That’s partly because mortality rates were much higher – people were dying in their thirties on average until the early Victorian period. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z

Unique feature: Its well-preserved Victorian homes and inns. A beachgoer’s guide to the southernmost South Jersey Shore 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

There aren’t any female voices in the original Victorian Sherlock Holmes stories. 'Sherlock' Creator on Benedict Cumberbatch’s 1 Request for the Holiday Special 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

With great ingenuity, he created Kayak’s archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended. George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96 2010-09-04T05:04:00Z

It includes postcards and stills from the landmark's Victorian heyday and postwar boom years, as well as photos of a previous fire. Hastings pier: a history in clips 2010-10-05T12:26:00Z

Not only was a generation of young men swept away, but so were attitudes that tied the UK to the Victorian era. This week's new theatre 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Of course, that’s essentially the same gap that the eminent Victorian Benjamin Disraeli was talking about when he wrote that his country was made up of “two nations,” of the affluent and the needy. David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ Stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a rags-to-riches tale: The film follows Chaplin’s journey to Hollywood heights from a difficult childhood in Victorian London. What’s on TV This Week: ‘American Auto’ and ‘MTV Unplugged’ 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

“Writing Fingersmith I was at my most immersed in the 19th century. I was just in love with the Victorians,” she says. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

He’s free to wander his neighborhood, an idyllic development carved out of the dense woods of a former Victorian estate. In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The action typically takes place in Victorian England, the industrialized West or a fantasy world that marries machines with Victorian sensibilities. Seattle knitters weave steampunk, needlecraft into book 2013-04-12T00:21:46Z

And it wasn’t Enron or the Iraq war that caused the breakup; it was her boyfriend’s snobbish parents, and that reflects Victorian values, not the new millennium. | 'My Generation': 10 Years After the Prom: Friends as Landmarks 2010-09-22T21:57:00Z

Recently, my two children helped me unpack the holiday heirlooms I inherited from Aunt Cathy — a set of small Victorian dolls that she kept in a glass curio cabinet. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Or even before then – from the days when the Victorians built things to last. You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain – review 2013-01-23T07:01:01Z

In that respect, Martin rates as one of the founding fathers of Victorian kitsch, now set up on a pedestal. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

Until the 1970s, Victorian art in general was regarded by sophisticates as stale, morally stultifying, formulaic kitsch. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The Victorian facial hair hasn’t helped; it lends an incongruous quality of statesmanship to a man viewed by his colleagues as a pest. Texas is freezing, but the roast of Ted Cruz is on 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The whitewashed Victorian façade holds the sunlight brightly when the weather is good. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The galleries, leased from Playboy Enterprises, contain the company’s longtime stock of realist and folk-art paintings and antiques like Chinese export porcelain, Victorian pressed glass and 1810s tables with eagle feet. Antiques: A Sotheby?s Catalog With Some Juicy Details 2011-02-24T22:29:12Z

Four of her novels have been adapted for television and in the three Victorian romps – including Fingersmith – she made cameo appearances. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

“The thought that this mixture might be bottled and stored for later use, or even for sale, was of a piece with the industrialisation of food production in the late Victorian period.” How to make the perfect lemon curd 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

From witches to a Victorian medium and ghost tours, London is ready for Halloween. London Gets in the Halloween Spirit 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

We like to imagine that we’ve moved beyond the sting of those censorious Victorians, but their literary prejudices have left an indelible stain on our tastes. Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

And while this was Victorian London, there wasn't much judgment from the 1970s, as characters use slurs liberally. The Talons Of Weng Chiang: Doctor Who classic episode #9 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z

The Victorians used to use it in mourning jewelry; people used to get commissions of hair jewelry using hair from their loved ones. The weird world of contemporary hair art 2011-07-13T01:01:00Z

When Camille shows up unexpected at her home, a gigantic Victorian mansion, she hesitates to invite her inside, making an excuse about the house not being ready for company. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Victorian era was one of tremendous social and scientific progress. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Some history-focused sites on the ramble, like the private Boonsborough Museum of History, in a Victorian home just up the street from the inn, lean to the unpredictable. Nora Roberts Sparks Up Maryland?s Civil War Country 2010-04-29T22:12:00Z

The town of Mendocino, with its ocean fogs and ornate Victorian architecture, is an eerie presence in this novel, its otherworldliness intensified by Anna’s desperate recourse to a psychic for help in finding Cameron. Review | In her novel ‘When the Stars Go Dark,’ Paula McLain draws on abuse cases, including her own 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

They span the social spectrum, from the well-to-do Victorian gentlemen to the families who huddled together in single rooms during the decades after the second world war when the house degenerated into a tenement slum. Slave trader’s home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Removed from the dark and cramped confines of Victorian shops, they were no longer simple measures of economic or material value alone. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

For 40 years, he embellished the walls with vines, flowers, simulations of wood grain and snippets of Victorian verse. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The economic squeeze is reviving fears last allayed two decades ago that the UK's heritage of Victorian textile mills is under renewed threat from the ball-and-chain and bulldozer. Trouble at mill: recession brings renewed threat of bulldozers 2011-03-21T11:55:05Z

The Irish owners of Lillie’s Victorian Establishment, a pair of Manhattan bars devoted to the actress Lillie Langtry, have opened a cheerfully opulent bar honoring her friend Oscar Wilde. Where to Party in New York This Fall 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The Brooks Atkinson proscenium has been tricked up to suggest a Victorian music hall. Theater Review: ?Peter and the Starcatcher,? With Christian Borle 2012-04-16T02:57:15Z

Victorian diseases like polio, typhoid and cholera resurface. Review: ‘The Morning They Came for Us’ Reports on the Hell of Syria 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

In fact, thanks to the cultural impact of the Victorian Christmas classic, that's often how humbug is used today. What does "Bah, humbug!" actually mean? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Women began hankering after the almost Victorian silhouette embodied by Dior’s “new” look and Schiaparelli was not prepared or not able to follow suit. Nonparelli 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Like many in the Victorian hygienic movement, Woodhull viewed this “morbid vice” as sapping one’s energy and, for men, wasting precious bodily fluids. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

A Victorian gazebo, original to the 1886 building, offers covered al fresco dining. Check In/Check Out : Hotel Review: La Maison Blanche on Shelter Island, N.Y. 2011-07-29T19:33:41Z

For the Victorians, chocolate was much more accessible but still something of an indulgence. From chicken to chocolate: the fascinating history of the Easter egg 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

The male characters, though, are still wondering whatever happened to those grand Victorian times when men were protectors and women were property. Review: ‘The Awful Truth,’ Modern Woman and No-So-Modern Men 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

All Victorian life is here, which means the novel itself becomes a kind of freakshow, obsessed with its relationship to its own cleverly chosen epigraphs and the "penny dreadful" tales to which characters allude. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z

Most of the costumes are not so much bizarre as just fabulous, in what is at times a Victorian sort of way—that is, busy, crowded, fanciful. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Wrapped around the entire perimeter of the hulking Palace Theatre in London’s West End, over a thousand ‘Potterheads’ patiently waited for their bags to be checked before entering the grand red-brick, Victorian building. Fans Spellbound by 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The attractive clique was very dressed up, and in the mahogany-paneled drawing room with its brooding Victorian décor the scene resembled a crossover episode of “Gossip Girl” and “The Addams Family.” Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s “vile,” but a typical, absinthe-fueled party for the Bright Young Things, who host “masked parties, savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Circus parties,” and more in 1930s London. Get inspired for New Year’s Eve with these 10 outrageous movie party scenes 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

The town had experienced economic depression after major industries shut down, with Victorian and Edwardian-style mansions left in limbo. The Abandoned Houses of Instagram 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Fifteen years ago a derelict Victorian whiskey distillery just east of downtown Toronto was reborn as 10 pedestrianised streets worth of retailers and restaurants. 10 cool shopping districts around the world: readers’ tips 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

I wear those very, very long Victorian draw things in various shades of navy. A Minute With: Emma Thompson on comedy, bathing suits and success 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Middle-class Victorians took "slum tours" to get a firsthand look at urban squalor — some for philanthropic reasons, others for titillation. London's New 'Dirt' Exhibit Celebrates the Value of Filth 2011-04-12T08:45:00Z

Flawed, insensitive and partial though their petitioning procedures probably were, most of us are grateful for what the Victorians got done. David Mitchell: Country dwellers moaning about high-speed trains is just selfish 2011-03-06T00:11:13Z

A free-standing museum displays all manner of Victorian artifacts and oddities. Scotland’s northeastern scenery circuit — 500 miles of sheep, history and whisky 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

With stringy black hair shrouding her face, India is a dour, intelligent introvert - a kind of Victorian shadow of Wasikowska's Jane Eyre. Review: Park Chan-wook's lurid melodrama 'Stoker' 2013-02-28T02:01:08Z

“The Victorian Gothic architecture reminded me of the Marmont,” Mr. Balazs told me, “and the neighborhood was like the SoHo that used to be there when we first opened the Mercer.” Adding Celebrity Sizzle to a London Neighborhood 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

We moved to a big Victorian house, the kind I’d fantasized about in my apartment complex upbringing. How a six-month separation saved our marriage 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

At the Victorian eyesore of a building in Central London known as the Circus, Guillam fulfills “my first vision of myself as a secret warrior in my dead father’s image.” John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The creatures and plants answered a hunger from the Victorians to see for themselves the fantastic discoveries botanists and zoologists were making. Victorian glass sea models to be displayed at Natural History Museum 2010-05-24T07:24:00Z

With his uniform of dark suits, his Victorian manner, he was a relic in his own time. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

“The white dresses are very much a look from Victorian times. We asked ourselves, ‘Are we going to take any artistic license or are we going to stick with the iconic picnic dresses?’ Costume Secrets From ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

Leonard’s chosen genre is the Victorian mystery, whose iconography — sulfurous fog, hansom cabs — had already been fixed in Conan Doyle’s lifetime. Review | Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Bill Pertwee lived in a slightly anarchic, rambling Victorian villa in Hove, East Sussex. Letter: Bill Pertwee's homely hilarity 2013-05-30T16:04:14Z

If so, Christian Rivers’ Mortal Engines, about a world in which technology has regressed to Victorian levels and wheel-mounted carnivorous cities chase each other across the plains might be the answer. Future shock: unearthing the most cutting-edge sci-fi movies of 2018 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Fox lifts her eyes from the table to show us the rest of the room: the Tiffany lampshade, the stainless-steel sink, the refurbished cedar floorboards, the “highly polished” Victorian secretary desk. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

‘You didn’t go all the way unless you were stupid, because it would ruin your life’ Jane, 81, three partners My grandmother was a Victorian and wouldn’t mention the lavatory. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Designed by the Brooklyn firm Hecho, Flash Factory is selling itself as a “homage to an era of vaudevillian eccentricity and Victorian decadence.” Flash Factory, a New Techno Music Club, Takes a Populist Approach 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the 1930s, when he moved to New Jersey, he took his 19th-century German furniture to a gabled Victorian house near the Princeton campus. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z

During the Victorian period, however, many of these lectures and demonstrations at other institutions were more spectacle than scholarship. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

To a certain extent current practices of commemorating the canine dead do continue to reflect this particular Victorian sentiment and practice. The ancient art of burying your dog 2014-04-06T14:00:00Z

Ms. Boyce said that in discussions about which piece of art to remove, museum volunteers had shared stories of guests making inappropriate comments, sometimes in reference to the Victorian paintings of naked women. Gallery Wanted to Provoke Debate by Removing Naked Nymphs Painting. It Succeeded. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Beautiful LEGO” features artists around the world who have produced some jaw-dropping constructions from these versatile plastic pieces, from free-form sculpture to Victorian mansions to the cast of characters of Alice in Wonderland. 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z

Bakewell also confesses “a soft spot” for the early 20th-century Oxford philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell and for the Victorian literary critic Matthew Arnold, hardly fashionable figures these days. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images Campaigners battling to save one of Britain's finest Victorian market buildings from what they see as a "destructive" redevelopment are set to take their battle across the Atlantic. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z

One of the first things he expects to say is that reading is not a Victorian pastime. Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People?s Literature 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

The producer chose the Curve theatre in Leicester, which opened in 2008, for the launch because its technical and rehearsal facilities beat those of traditional British Victorian playhouses. Weinstein goes back to Neverland 2012-09-14T05:24:13Z

As the Victorian commentator Walter Bagehot wrote of royal mystique: “We must not let in the daylight upon magic.” ‘The Crown’ and the Appeal of a Royal TV Interview 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Women’s entry into the paid workforce, in particular, upended the bourgeois Victorian family model in which he battles in the marketplace and she nurtures in the home. Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z

The smell of peat from barley stored here in Victorian times still lingered in the air. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Our Mutual Friend: The Scholarly Pages is a revamped version of a site first presented in 1998, when the technology of the Web verged on Victorian by today’s standards. ArtsBeat: And Now a Word from Charles Dickens's Sponsor... 2012-04-05T19:27:48Z

"This is not just any gas holder," says Heloise Brown, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society. The week in architecture 2011-07-15T11:31:31Z

I first met Michael at a party in a tech entrepreneur’s renovated San Francisco Victorian. “There are degrees of safe sex” 2013-12-22T01:00:00Z

It’s open year-round, but during the holidays, they go all out with Victorian decorations, mulled cider, and readings from A Christmas Carol. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

This is neither the literalist translation propagated by the Saudis nor the rationalist one composed by Jewish convert Muhammad Asad, nor the stilted interpretation popularized by the Victorians. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The rise of modern detection was a product of Victorian London, and Charles Dickens was one of those fascinated by its impact. Detecting the origins of Sherlock Holmes 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Victorian antiques escape purchase tax – but so do assemble-it-yourself modern pieces, some of which are certainly vile, but many of which are delightful – and none of which would look right in a traditional setting. From the Observer archive, 15 July 1962: In praise of a thoroughly modern home 2013-07-13T23:05:25Z

In “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,” Summerscale used a police investigation as a crowbar to pry open the inner workings of Victorian domestic life, in particular the often-occluded power dynamics between classes and family members. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

The illusion is created by a photo-realistic replica of a Victorian terraced house, built flat on the ground, with a vast mirrored surface suspended at 45 degrees above it. Dalston House: the building that lets you defy gravity 2013-06-26T06:00:04Z

“The world is reading a very important story that is relevant to Victorians,” reads the subhead. Perspective | A top cardinal’s sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can’t report it there. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Those legs are the reason Victorians put socks on their pianos: their quadriceps suck down like plungers, the word “ham” is not misapplied to their hamstrings. Broken collarbone? Just roll with it 2013-06-02T17:00:00Z

“The housedresses and Victorians, there’s so much of that in the market. What’s that weird, kooky element you can add? That spirited little flash of newness?” A Pink Parade at the End of the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

A spokesman for the concert hall told the BBC that plans are in place to upgrade the Victorian heating and ventilation systems. BBC Proms musicians hit by heatwave 2013-07-25T11:28:21Z

Our sense, say, of the Victorians being not at all our parents’ sense of the Victorians. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Laura Gale House is tucked between two Victorian houses in an area so bucolic that I forgot I was anywhere close to America’s third-largest city. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is also a cautionary one, because it shows that it was who you knew as much as what you knew that was important in the world of Victorian scientific invention. Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport – review 2013-04-21T11:00:02Z

Serenity Garden Tea House is everything traditional: Victorian place settings, bone china, polished silver, and lace-covered tables. These Are America's Best Tearooms 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

A hotel that feels like a Victorian manor house, with rooms starting at $160. Scotland’s northeastern scenery circuit — 500 miles of sheep, history and whisky 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

It's not Victorian, at least not in the comfortable, garden-party sense. Michael Fassbender, future superstar 2011-03-08T23:01:00Z

There will be explanations of, say, the civil war, the Glorious Revolution and Victorian social anxieties. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

Perhaps because of this somewhat equivocal status, comes in for more than its fair share of opprobrium from Victorian language mavens. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z

At first glance, the poem might seem sentimental, its moral too sweet an image of self-effacing Victorian motherhood for modern taste. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

Mr. North, the founder of the nonprofit organization Reallocate, lives in a three-story Victorian house known as the Embassy. Bay Area Millennials are Flocking to Communes 2013-12-12T00:53:10Z

“Even if it’s just Michael and I talking on a park bench, we’re on a park bench surrounded by Victorian dinosaurs.” ‘Good Omens’ Unites an Angel and a Demon for Judgment Day 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Her death began a pattern of continual, repeated bereavement — extreme even for the Victorian Age — that would haunt the Brontë family. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The 1864 crime was, as the book's subtitle suggests, the first Victorian railway killing. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z

Dressed for the part of a Victorian naturalist ... Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero; Endeavour: TV review 2013-04-22T06:00:20Z

The newly renovated home is now open to the public and retains much of its Victorian architecture and decor while paying homage to the horror film that made it famous – "The Silence of the Lambs." 'Silence of the Lambs' home open for Halloween travel with spooky props, interactive set 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

I learned a lot about the plight of Victorian Asians, but Gupta never really explores the source of the Queen's attachment to Karim, and the dialogue rarely rises above the functional. The Empress – review 2013-04-19T16:41:53Z

She came from a poetry-memorizing Victorian culture and knew long passages of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” and Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha” by heart. An Art Critic Is First Inspired by Words 2013-08-14T22:01:50Z

In six portraits of Victorian women, each of whom set off to America rather than waiting out their "grey years" back home, Wheeler argues the case for ingenuity in the face of defeat. O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z

"There is something irresistibly timeless about Tussaud's, as though the clock had obstinately stopped at the high noon of Victorian history painting," wrote Roy Strong, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z

She was also a friend of many Victorian artists, poets and thinkers, many of whom she photographed in a dreamy, soft-focused manner that was often condemned by her contemporaries for its lack of craftsmanship. | Art: A Photographer’s ‘Tender Ardor’ 2013-08-16T19:15:16Z

Another patron was the artist in whose honour the gallery was created, GF Watts – like Holl a Victorian giant whose reputation crashed and only began to recover in the late 20th century. Paint it black: Frank Holl, master of Victorian darkness 2013-06-18T16:36:56Z

A number of Victorian sources remark on this schoolboy tradition. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

This is the stuff of a Victorian novel, a supercharged slice of life. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Many of the theatres date back to the Victorian and Edwardian days. West End theatres 'are infested' 2010-03-04T09:25:00Z

The novel takes place in Victorian London, which is full of magic. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The other children worked like Victorian house staff. Motherlode Blog: Learning the Rules of the Preschool Application Game 2014-03-04T16:14:42Z

The candy-coated holiday as we know today really found its stride with the Victorians and their obsession with two things: romance and industrialization. The Victorian origins of the heart-shaped chocolate box 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

The images of the Jersey Shore conjured up in the reality TV show bear little resemblance to this family-oriented destination, with its charming Victorian homes and historic lighthouse. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Cape May, N.J. 2011-06-30T19:01:36Z

There’s a famous engraving from the 1800s of women reading The Monk and giggling and sort of getting titillated in a Victorian house. Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

A production of “Jack The Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel,” which focused on the Victorian murderer’s victims, fared less well. Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Lien designed a Victorian cast-iron chair, upholstered in oxblood-red synthetic leather. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The Victorian operettas, he says, were revolutionary in their time and “filled with such incredible joy and surprise and intelligence.” A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

It was like a storefront on the front of a beautiful Victorian house. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Set in the Victorian era, it’s part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. A Spirited Widow and a Monstrous Serpent Propel a Lush Novel 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

She added that despite all the advances women have made since the Victorian era, inequality and lack of choice remain issues for many women in all parts of the world. Women directors shine at Toronto film festival 2011-09-17T18:45:47Z

It highlights more than a dozen of the city’s most rebellious women of the Victorian era through biographies, prints and photographs culled from the museum’s collections. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

In Northamptonshire, a Victorian baronet populated a whole cliff with ceramic gnomes. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z

Go down into the bowels of the building for a glimpse of how Victorian Liverpool treated its "criminals." Five Reasons to Visit Liverpool 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z

Until the late Victorian era, stage performances usually observed the setting and period implied in the play, but they transformed the language. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Inside are two listening booths made from Victorian wardrobes. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

“It has an aristocratic air about it,” he said, adding, “I call it my Madison Avenue Victorian number.” William Greenberg Jr., Baker Who Sweetened Manhattan, Dies at 97 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The figurative windows, however, are fatally infected by Victorian sentimentality. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z

One can only lament the pretty little Victorian buildings that gave way to this elephant. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z

So what we got was Victorian Pharmacy With 21st Century Health and Safety Regulations, which rather undermined the whole point of the programme. TV Review: Victorian Pharmacy 2010-07-16T05:45:00Z

Initially, these rudimentary likenesses weren’t technically holograms at all, but light projections on to a thin piece of glass or gauze that evoked a spectral presence, using a Victorian sideshow technique called Pepper’s Ghost. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Another Period is a faux-reality show about two rich sisters in the Victorian era. Comedy Central Renews Inside Amy Schumer 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

He made us believe in Captain Hook and Tinkerbell, and so we can believe that women oppressed by Victorian strictures could find the spirit to escape their gilded birdcages of propriety. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z

There were sweeping Victorian ruffles and bourgeois tweed lunching suits; granny glasses and piles of Elizabethan curls; ruffles and crosses and disco zebra stripes and sequins and floral sweatshirts. Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The water fountain, propped on a pedestal and topped by an officious obelisk, is a relic of Victorian philanthropy, catering to the thirst of the itinerant poor. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z

But the typically Victorian horror from the royals brought to light a valid question for Americans, who were ostensibly untethered from the Queen’s morals 200 years ago: why are we so freaked out about sexting? Are online nudie pics an art form? 2012-09-01T14:00:00Z

It was familiar, with modern conveniences like electric lights and automobiles, but the habits and customs still drew on older Victorian models. Perspective | How one writer shook up the Golden Age detective novel 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

There was “a Grim Reaper of pubs”, the Murphys were told, and he was circling their handsome Victorian building on Royal College Street. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Such views reached a pinnacle of sorts during the Victorian era, when women were reconstructed as “domestic angels,” genetically predisposed to cook, clean, and raise the children—and otherwise stay clear of men’s affairs. After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z

Early in the evening, pink light sifts in through a facade of hinged white metal panels perforated with a design taken from Victorian wallpaper. A Burmese Kitchen That Combines Fidelity and Freedom 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Bridie moves through a Victorian London of ravens and ghosts, apothecaries and circuses, a foggy underworld filled with crypts and stuffy rooming houses. Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

But you could just as easily diagnose the late Victorian strain of toxic masculinity. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

The air around a large Victorian tub becomes a coffin of vermilion rubber; the voids beneath chairs cohere into colored resin, which the artist arrays like large gummi candies. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

These days Green-Wood is close to capacity, and the cultural offerings tend to stay tightly focused on the cemetery’s rich history and mood of dreamy Victorian piety. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z

It was a staple of Victorian prose, and used to marvelous effect by some early 20th-century writers. Three things we love this week 2013-01-03T21:36:57Z

Conditions there were notably harsh and it became a target for later Victorian reformers such as Louisa Twining and Joseph Rogers. 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T21:15:31Z

His carol takes as its text a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Victorian poet laureate. Bleak midwinter to Sydney sun: King's College carol service gets a taste of Australia 2012-12-22T13:10:26Z

I sat upright like a Victorian lady on a metal pony. In Wildwood, my final summertime fling

But part of her appeal was her very firmness on subjects like Charles Darwin, the differences between France and England during the Enlightenment, and marriage in the Victorian era. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Starting from the age of nine, I helped my mom bake brownies in the narrow kitchen of our Victorian flat, creating towers of pans stacked perpendicularly to cool. I grew up in an underground cannabis bakery during the AIDS epidemic. Yes, it is essential medicine 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

But now — to borrow the words of another great Victorian writer — the rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But it makes the list because it’s got Oliver, that icon of quintessential Victorian orphanhood, whose “Please sir, I want some more” is a quick, quotable window into the problems of the Victorian welfare state. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z

The most famous Victorian aesthete, immortalised in a thousand screen bites of sex and death, may be Count Dracula, the connoisseur of young beauty in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel that popularised aesthetic decadence. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z

Once a month in a Victorian house on the site, a Design House is created using a combination of old and new furnishings and an outdoor flea market springs up around it. Destination Design: Leesburg

But as in Hardy’s great novel of sex and power in Victorian England, Trishna is ultimately not much more than a piece of property to Jay, and subject to his whims. Pick of the week: “Trishna” rebukes Bollywood 2012-07-13T00:00:00Z

The technology is advanced, while the décor hovers somewhere between late Victorian and mid-20th-century modern. Christoph Waltz Drowns in Technocracy in ‘The Zero Theorem’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

His flat, however, is sensationally weird – part Mayfair gentleman's club, part Victorian freak show, with every room a freaky spectacle crammed with taxidermy and esoterica, lined with portraits and heavily bound books. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

No mystery writer except perhaps Anne Perry is as successful as Charles Finch at evoking the atmosphere of Victorian London — and not just the physical fragrances and stenches but the sociopolitical ones, too. Review | Five new thrillers and mysteries to help escape reality — or see it in another light 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The best work in How to be a Victorian lies in Goodman's quiet demilitarisation of the corset – one of the most vicious ideological battlegrounds in Victorian studies. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

Some of these gently blurred pictures feel remarkably current, despite their antiquated stylings and hints of starchy Victorian moralism. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z

In this final episode, we also see the revival of Grossmith, a Victorian perfume house reinvigorated by two of the family's direct descendants. TV highlights 12/07/2011: The Night Watch 2011-07-12T08:04:16Z

Maybe not as baffling when put in the context of the character’s progenitor: a consulting detective from Victorian England who is, as Mr. Laurie put it, “arguably the most famous literary franchise ever.” Hugh Laurie Directs an Episode of ?House? 2010-04-11T22:24:00Z

She lives in a small Victorian house that she shares with an ex-boyfriend near a men’s prison in South London. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Woolf's skewering cameos were in the vein of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians; she couldn't resist an edition of Eminent Charlestonians. New Virginia Woolf published 2013-06-15T07:59:02Z

Still, he speaks of his childhood as a deeply secure, rooted time; the Boroughs’ dense warren of Victorian terraces sustained a strong sense of community. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

They look odd, these women: It’s not so much their Victorian garb as the fact that their face is covered in a combo of bonnet and breathing mask. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The Victorian era is particularly fascinating because it was a time where globalization and industrialization were rapidly transforming daily life. The strange and magical Victorian wonders of “Penny Dreadful” suffer no sophomore slump 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, a Victorian law, which upset me because I don't think I'm nuts. Adam Ant: I'd like to fight Liam Gallagher 2010-04-28T13:35:00Z

Grindstone Island is a 12-acre dot of green leaves and Victorian gingerbread structures in the middle of Big Rideau Lake, halfway between Kingston and Ottawa. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

“Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement,” 10 a.m.-5 p.m. At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Victorian Radicals’ is certainly Victorian. But radical? Not so much. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Home to production studios and advertising agencies — as well as to Manhattan-inspired mint apartments that share the streets with historic Victorian architecture — Woodstock is a coveted location for movie and magazine shoots. Surfacing: Woodstock, South Africa, Sees a Revival 2010-05-21T14:23:00Z

When their father’s death forces Nora and Mary Dominguez to leave the family mansion, they don’t land in a country cottage, they move into their tía Aurelia’s East Los Angeles Victorian. | 'From Prada to Nada': Jane Austen, Transmigrated To Modern-Day East L.A. 2011-01-28T18:53:00Z

Festivalgoers will sit on straw bales as they queue up for films at several historic theaters in the picturesque Victorian town. Preview: Port Townsend Film Festival 2011-09-14T22:03:06Z

“We have to shift the outdated Victorian connotations of what mental health is.” 'People think of straitjackets': the podcast unveiling reality in a psychiatric hospital 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The color — or, as art scribes have put it, “the eloquent absence of color” — inspired a flotilla of designers, whose spring collections at times evoked a Victorian laundry. Summer’s Color Forecast: Whiteout Conditions 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Victorians, she asserts, “helped establish expectations that persist today about what a well-appointed home looks like.” Review | Jennifer Howard’s ‘Clutter: An Untidy History’ takes Marie Kondo’s message a step further 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

It’s always cold, damp and foggy in Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries featuring William Monk, commander of the Thames River Police. The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Margaret F. MacDonald, this Yale book’s main author, argues that the two formed a symbiotic partnership, while other distinguished scholars pursue the image of “the woman in white” during the late Victorian era. Review | Why read what everyone else is reading? A guide to this season’s hidden gems. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Christian Schmidt's set is dominated by a three-story balcony that surrounds the stage in the background - handy for the superb chorus - and his costumes evoke the Victorian era. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z

Built in 1870, this three-story Victorian is located in the middle of downtown Chagrin Falls, approximately half an hour from Cleveland. Estates of the Week - November 14, 2014 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Matt has to unlock a secret that Sally’s keeping as they spar in a derelict boathouse — the Victorian “folly” of the title. Review | Theater J, still roaming across D.C., revives ‘Talley’s Folly’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The Victorians invented the tradition of sending Christmas cards, though their taste in seasonally appropriate art was sometimes unusual. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

As in most Victorian novels, Schaffert rewards perseverance in the end — for characters and readers alike — with a satisfying, if unexpected, resolution. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z

But the second floor is her refuge, with the master bedroom painted a deep rose and cream, and filled with Victorian, art nouveau and art deco furnishings and lighting. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Cult of Beauty, London Rejecting Victorian Britain's grim realities, the aesthetic movement strove to create a world of perfect beauty. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z

She rummages through the layers of Victorian society as if through an old steamer trunk, pulling up all variety of treasures, like pythons and heads in hatboxes. Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

She's brought a dress, a light Victorian frock, that might suit the character, and when she slips it on, Vanda becomes Vanda as Thomas imagined her. Roman Polanski knows the ropes in 'Venus in Fur' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Dioramas, meanwhile, became a well-established form of education and entertainment, enthralling Victorian viewers with the spectacle of a well-controlled and delightfully tiny world. Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

In 1868, at Disraeli’s suggestion, she made Mary Anne Viscountess Beaconsfield—her prize, perhaps, for at last looking something like an ideal Victorian wife. A mismatch made in heaven 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The stark human cost of Britain’s decade-long austerity drive, welfare reforms and warped housing priorities can be glimpsed in 11 decaying flats carved from what was once a grand Victorian terrace home in Weston-super-Mare. The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The increasing use of “hope,” “light” and “sunlight,” for instance, was interpreted as a sign of the Victorians’ increasing optimism. Analyzing Literature by the Words, but Also the Numbers 2010-12-03T20:30:00Z

Real estate agents are stressing the house's Victorian details rather than its TV history. 'Full House' property for sale if new family can swing $4M 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

McDermott treats all of this as mysterious antiquated ritual, perverse Victorian rite and lusty variety show.  Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

The architect Charles McKim rejected the florid, multicolored, Victorian Gothic style of Memorial Hall and instead turned back to the colonial Georgian-era buildings as his inspiration. The Gates at Harvard Have Stories to Tell 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I thought of a Victorian woman in mourning.” New York Fashion Week’s Under-the-Radar Talents 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the 1970s feminist rereadings of Victorian novels, including Jane Eyre and The Woman in White, created a remarkably enduring template of the madwoman in the attic. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z

Kids ride their bikes on the sidewalk outside Von D's sprawling Victorian mansion. Kat Von D has a new album — and an explanation for everything else 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

It is now more 20 years since Whiteread made Ghost, her seminal plastercast of the interior space of a Victorian front room. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z

The parts of the museum that aren’t focused on art — like its planetarium and the Ballantine House, its historical landmark Victorian mansion — will also be used to encourage discussion and community engagement. Newark Museum Is Now the Newark Museum of Art 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

A gallery downstairs showcases the work of local artists, and an upstairs gallery is a reproduction of a Victorian parlor. Trenton City Museum Faces Uncertain Future 2012-07-10T22:23:33Z

He found the costs of the Victorian navy as much of a nightmare to budgeting as the NHS is today. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z

On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning Three female explorers from the Victorian Era have a series of adventures in Eric Overmyer’s fantastical tale. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 24-Oct. 1: 'Wicked Lit,' 'Resolving Hedda' and more 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

I bought that 19th-century Victorian revival for $37,500 through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. My tiny house reality: When the downsized life is the only life you can afford 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

It was a major party environment, a backlash against Victorian conservatism. Atlantic City embracing Roaring '20s party vibe 2011-01-31T12:30:15Z

The Victorian theatre of spectacle is alive and well, and residing at the London Palladium. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011-03-02T00:53:18Z

Evidence of that approach might be DJ Taylor's Victorian mystery Derby Day, a book that could easily be called a thriller – a rare thing on the Man Booker longlists. Debut novel by former warehouseman wins place on Man Booker longlist 2011-07-26T19:23:35Z

Its staff had all been trained in Victorian accents and body language. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

Tall and elegant, with a swoop of blond hair and the haunted air of a Victorian poet, Hallberg was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

What was in the water in Victorian London to make this happen?’ New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z

There was a time, I assume, when people were less freaked out about this, but maybe the Victorians destroyed that and left us in this paroxysm that we can't get out of. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

The filmmaker Ronni Thomas will, when he presents this illustrated lecture about the fascination with 3-D macabre during the Victorian era. Weekend Miser: Events Inspired by the Written Word 2010-07-29T21:57:00Z

“The Nightingale” is a revenge story, one that draws on familiar Victorian Gothic and Hollywood western tropes. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

More than other biographers, Ackroyd brings out the contrast between Collins’s serenity — “He was perhaps the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists” — and the poor health that dogged him for much of his life. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Smoking Rocket is one of the signature drinks at Stitch, a basement cocktail bar in Sydney with cheeky Victorian accents, like the stacks of Singer sewing machines that form the foundation of the bar. A guide to Sydney’s flourishing small-bar scene 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the process, he gets tangled up with a young novelist named Toby Oates, whose professional and personal accomplishments closely resemble those of a certain Victorian author we know. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z

The Victorian journalist Walter Bagehot seems to have hit upon the importance of the monarch’s mystique with his oft-quoted remark: “We must not let in daylight upon magic.” The British royal family is struggling through scandals. Can ‘The Crown’ help? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Though it might seem one of the by-products of Victorian poetry, this poem actually expresses an essential quality of the age, its power of synthesis. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

But for “Leave Your Sleep,” Ms. Merchant decided to set other people’s poetry to music: poems from Victorian England and Jazz Age America, from E. E. Cummings and Mother Goose. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z

The most accessible of his major novels, Poor Things, published in 1992, is a historical pastiche, a Victorian reworking of the Frankenstein story. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z

Superficially an exciting nautical adventure yarn, the subtle, psychological fable centres on a party of Victorian children, captured by Caribbean pirates on their way to England, who send their accidental captors to the gallows. A High Wind in Jamaica ? DVD review 2011-08-13T23:15:01Z

And, third — size rarely matters, though Schilthuizen does tell us that in that well-known era of prudery, the Victorian Charles Darwin discovered the most well endowed animal in the world. ‘Nature’s Nether Regions’: how birds, bees and all the rest do it 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Not that that mattered once I found the listing entitled “Victorian splendor in San Francisco.” The Frugal Traveler in San Francisco With His Year-Old Daughter 2010-03-13T03:49:00Z

Nearby, “Rust at Rest,” a polished dark-wood bricolage, fuses nautical, Victorian and Art Deco while offering visitors seemingly iron bolts made of dark chocolate. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The author’s degrees in English literature clearly serve her well as her novel conjures up the sights, smells and concerns of any number of Victorian novels. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots

Some of the performers wear elaborate, antiquated black gowns, as if mourners at a Victorian funeral. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

It is set in the unheated Victorian kitchen of the gloomy bank manager, whose wife has sunk into a permanent alcoholic stupor. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z

Johnson interjects that “Common sense urges us to suppose that beneath the Victorians’ public postures of rectitude, formality and reserve . . . lurked beings much like ourselves. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's entertaining stuff – knowing, but never too knowing – and Rennison's love of Victorian slang reflects a broader linguistic flair. Thrillers roundup – reviews 2013-07-04T09:00:00Z

Other Victorian additions to the home include stained glass, mantle pieces, coffered and tin ceilings, walnut wainscoting and inlaid parquet floors. Massachusetts home where Lizzie Borden lived is selling for $890G 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

She settled on a modernized “wealth gap” look that she reckons is one part Victorian England, three parts modern times. ‘Oliver!’ shows off Arena artisans’ craft 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Chalamet, with his long, pale limbs and shock of dark hair, is the proprietor of an aesthetic that many have compared to a sickly Victorian child, or a bewitched porcelain doll. Timothée Chalamet and the return of the Cool Jew 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

It turns out there is a crowded field of Dickensian carolers, apparently inspired by “A Christmas Carol,” and it has sometimes been difficult for the Dickens’ Victorian Carolers to stand out. After 40 Years of Fa-La-Laing, a New York Caroler Hands In His Bells 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

The brutal world Charles Dickens describes in Hard Times is only one side of the story – the other side is Dickens himself and the Victorians' appetite for his compassionate books. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z

Instead of Victorians, there are triple-deckers, their porches lined with railings that flex against a body’s weight. A Mother and Daughter and a Town Made of ‘Brass’ 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The two made a plan to celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, where they first met in-person by the Painted Ladies, a row of the colorful Victorian houses near the city’s Alamo Square. Opening Up to Marriage, and Motherhood 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

For the kids, it was like watching a movie about the Victorians: the funny costumes! ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

En route, we passed shanties and dilapidated Victorian homes enclosed by broad porches, echoes of this once-prosperous Dutch settlement, and also the graceful white and stained-glass Moravian church built by German missionaries in 1849. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The National Museum of Scotland reopened its doors in July in all its Victorian glory after a 47-million-pound makeover gave it a spectacular boost into the 21st century. Scotland's portrait gallery fulfils 120-yr-old dream 2011-11-29T16:39:58Z

In these Victorian volumes, there was always a castle on a mountain in the middle of the city, which would be cut in half by a swan-dotted river, and ham- or mustard-colored houses. | Loving Ljubljana 2012-08-23T22:05:07Z

The notion of Queen Victoria as the most progressive figure of the Victorian age is also peculiar. Review: ‘Victoria and Abdul,’ a Royal Friendship in a Nest of Vipers 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

In the Victorian era, the image of the happy family, chaste couples amid the “respectability” of polite society, was acclaimed. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

Other objectors refer to Camden market, where the council permits "ugly" advertising eyesores to deface classic Victorian houses and shops. Judi Dench defends drama school in row over advertising boards 2013-05-18T23:06:15Z

This was a multifaceted garden around a Gothic Victorian house on 31st Street. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

A homey Victorian cottage happily cluttered with grandmotherly touches, like throw pillows, frilly curtains and a clawfoot tub. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Upholstered Victorian chairs, a tea set, a crib, and chinaware suggest a comfortable but not luxurious lifestyle. The western Virginia town that raised a forward-thinking first lady 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

A stroll down Shawmut Avenue in the South End is a perfect way to explore the area’s distinguished Victorian architecture. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

"Hetty Feather" is a feisty Victorian heroine who is left at a Foundling hospital as a baby. 'Children look at me as an agony aunt' 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Every personal decision and social gesture is consequential in Victorian society, in which the rules of propriety are strictly observed and a perceived indiscretion can destroy a woman’s reputation. ‘The Invisible Woman,’ About Charles Dickens’s Mistress 2013-12-24T16:57:59Z

I live at the intersection of several South London precincts, but the area most familiar to the wider world would be Crystal Palace, named after the vast Victorian glass house that once dominated its hilltop. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

They get the inside joke: These performers are reincarnations of the beloved local circus strongman, Louis Cyr, who personified the Victorian beef-and-barbells physique. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

He has also donated a collection of Victorian sideshow photos, which the center plans to exhibit. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z

Wassail, an alcoholic punch made with apples, was an ancient but still popular drink at Victorian Christmas gatherings. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

At the Corn Exchange, a magnificent Victorian oval hall with a feel of the Roman Pantheon, the owls appear to hold up the domed roof. In Leeds, England, searching for the city’s many owls is a real hoot

I emerged at Eureka, a coastal town known for its seafood and Victorian architecture. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Summerscale's Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, centred on a Victorian divorce case, is "every bit as nimble, and every bit as thoughtful" as her murder mystery, wrote the Mail on Sunday's Craig Brown. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-05-18T21:45:08Z

A theatre production of The Railway Children returns to Waterloo Station this month - with a genuine Victorian steam train in a starring role. Going loco 2011-06-28T07:09:31Z

Trusting an algorithm to find something to keep me awake, I downloaded “The Lost City of Z,” David Grann’s gripping tale of the obsessive, swashbuckling Victorian explorer Percy Fawcett. New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Grade II listed pier was designed by the genius of Victorian pier architecture, Eugenius Birch – who also created Brighton's now destroyed West Pier. Hastings pier gets £11.4m lottery grant 2012-11-19T15:32:52Z

The costumes are not decoration, Ms. Kondracki said, but an extended symbol of the societal oppression women faced during the Victorian era. Costume Secrets From ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

The private two-acre oasis is only accessible to the rich residents of the buildings that border it; in the Times, the journalist Charlotte Devree called the park “a Victorian gentleman who has refused to die.” New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The previous photographic recordsshowed men and women from North Shields during the early 20th century and Victorian villains in Newcastle city gaol in the 1870s. Here's looking at you, Sunderland Kid: 1930s mugshots go online 2012-08-23T15:57:14Z

She rivals that master of Victorian prolificacy, Anthony Trollope. Book World: ‘The Girl Next Door’ by Ruth Rendell

There was a heavy presence of Gucci in the visual album as well, because the Gucci tapestries all kind of lent themselves to this Victorian, antebellum, reformation vibe we were in. Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Stylist on New Orleans as Fashion Inspiration, That Yeezy Two-Piece and More 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

She didn't have to waste time worrying about squeezing the building into a street or fitting in with Tudor buildings – in Stratford-upon-Avon mostly Victorian "restorations". A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z

Why not stay by the fire, reading about fogbound Victorian crime? Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z

The Victorian critic believed art was a human necessity, not a luxury. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z

It often feels as if Tennessee Williams' gothic southern sensibility had been involved in a fatal dramatic collision with a Victorian melodrama and an X-rated episode of EastEnders. Gutted – review 2013-05-07T15:50:21Z

But it was also a decisive decade in which a new generation of emancipated young men and women separated themselves from their Victorian parents through the twin rebellions of work and sex. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z

Yet she was uncomplaining and in many ways preferred the Victorian kitchen and one-bar electric fires. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z

The late Victorian period saw an industrial expansion in crime fiction, accompanied by a belief in the power of rational thought – perhaps the apotheosis of both trends was Sherlock Holmes. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

Volunteer Park Conservatory: Victorian style greenhouse with permanent and seasonal plants, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community Corner: ice skating, Zoolights 2011-12-23T00:44:07Z

Her first book was inspired by the many hours she spent observing the flora and fauna around her weekend home, a Victorian farmhouse in Fentress. Texas Monthly: Austin Writer Jacqueline Kelly Turns to ‘Willows’ Sequel 2012-10-21T02:53:58Z

This was true of the wood-blocked chapbooks that endured into the Victorian era, as radical agitators maintained primitive production methods to keep prices within range of working people. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

There is an intended contrast throughout between the vivid colors and modern touches of the vaguely Victorian costumes, designed by Mr. Pelly, and Chantal Thomas’s rather abstract sets, with their askew floors and angles. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z

In addition to the advertisements, the site includes links to maps, letters, reviews, illustrations, and biographical material, along with essays on subjects like Victorian sanitation, education policy, poorhouses, and wooden legs. ArtsBeat: And Now a Word from Charles Dickens's Sponsor... 2012-04-05T19:27:48Z

She said that when she began her script, she “did a lot of research on Victorian mores, on how young girls were supposed to behave, and then did exactly the opposite.” Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z

You can travel back in time with displays about everyday life, from the Victorians to a kitchen from the 1950s. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

There was something interesting about the mock Victorian elegance he seemed to be working, without the reliance on literal references. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Wimp Effect Takes Hold 2010-06-29T22:42:00Z

He moves on when these Victorian specialties become passé. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Old Hollywood 2012-12-14T17:18:26Z

We almost lost it in 2004, when the gas chandeliers in the Victorian dining room in Downtown Brooklyn were snuffed out for the last time. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

I’ve been reading for research about Victorian America, all while imagining the next historical novel I want to write. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The previous tenant on the top floor of the Victorian had used green paint in a three-foot-wide storage closet, which opened into the living room. Tiny cloffices — workspaces in closets — are big, thanks to the pandemic 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Well, my sister's husband is certainly very Victorian in his values and he has a big nose. The Biology of Dads and Mongrels and Special 1 TV 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

The houses were big, Victorian, old and rundown. An ordinary girl born into a family of witches 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

“That this photographic construction would be more marketable to a public still steeped in Victorian sentimentality only adds to Gardner’s malfeasance.” Photographing a nation in motion 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Many carols “are a series of happy accidents” like that, Gant said, adding that it was only in Victorian times that British composers started writing carols specifically for Christmas services. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

"It's a blow for literacy and the end of a fine Victorian tradition." Brought to book 2012-05-16T19:48:15Z

Two portions of grapes is 28 grapes, which I count out one by one like some sort of shivering Victorian waif. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Her new book, How to be a Victorian – sturdy, Beetonian, compendious – has bigger ambitions. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

Research into local materials for the extension yielded a red sandstone from Corsehillthe same variety used in the nearby neo-Gothic Scottish National Portrait Gallery, itself a product of the Victorian age. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Edward Lear is even more of a puzzle: a strange, itinerant figure whose restless imagination and peculiar mind put him at odds with much of Victorian convention. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z

Yet surely Victorian men, as Jekyll and Hyde so powerfully remind us, worried about this as much or more, and they were sumptuously bearded. ‘Of Beards and Men’ review: The hairy truth about shaving through the ages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Hotels/inns: Choose from dozens of historic Victorian B&Bs. A beachgoer’s guide to the southernmost South Jersey Shore 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The Brontes were superlatively good at exploring the darkest recesses of the human heart and showing the violence and cruelty within Victorian society, as was Thomas Hardy. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z

And they’re scrutinizing her connections to her time: to the Civil War, to Victorian literature, to the provincial class system she was born into. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

The jaunty Victorian temperament of the prose rings true to the era, as do its thoroughness and attention to detail. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z

Along the way, Halls touches upon many related aspects of Victorian life, such as the first celebrity endorsements. ‘Inventions That Didn’t Change the World,’ by Julie Halls 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is a far cry from the Victorian era when scores of circuses with performing troupes of elephants, lions and tigers toured the country. Circuses remove last of the big cats from UK's big tops 2013-02-10T00:05:47Z

The Victorian detective originally appeared in 56 short stories and four novella, including the famous "Hound of the Baskervilles". London show holds up magnifying glass to Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Jim and I ring the doorbell at a Victorian house in London. Tears, honesty and flirty games: how we escaped our married sex rut 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

It's a very Victorian tale, both uplifting and sentimental, of deep-dyed villainy, fallen women, mistreated orphans, hidden benefactors and social injustice. Les Misérables – review 2013-01-13T00:07:04Z

Just ask the Victorians, if you can stop them tittering into their lacy handkerchiefs: If there’s a sentiment lurking in the human heart, there’s a flower that can convey it. Tipple through the tulips: How to use flowers in cocktails for Valentine’s Day 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

He switched back and forth on the monitors between showing the orchestra or Howard and kitschy Victorian animations. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865, was the most spectacular illustrated edition to be published in the Victorian age. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

So, given these confusing figures, were the Victorians radically different in their approach to murder? The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

It is written in modern English and is not at all stilted, as so many Victorian books seem today. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z

Like Mike Leigh’s 1999 film “Topsy-Turvy,” which told the story of Gilbert and Sullivan as they created “The Mikado,” the new production will firmly establish the operetta as a work of the Victorian imagination. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

On “Lake Tahoe,” she’s haunted by a “a woman down there” who occasionally surfaces wearing a Victorian dress and calling to her pet. Album review: Kate Bush, '50 Words for Snow' 2011-11-18T17:35:00Z

It was accessible through a coal shuttle behind a Victorian mansion in Ottawa. Dan Aykroyd: ‘Squirrels? They taste better than rattlesnake’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

Designed by young architects Carmody Groarke, who also created the 7 July memorial in Hyde Park, the new monument is like some great stone washed by ocean tides against the Victorian architecture of the museum. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-08T17:28:57Z

And, through Feb. 17, the New York Public Library has a small firecracker in the form of Anna Atkins, the seaweed-loving Victorian who sewed cyanotypes of British algae into the world’s first photo books. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston showed Victorian wood and terra-cotta statues previously mislabeled as Renaissance antiques. Antiques: Keeping It Real: A Show Made of Fakes 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

The Victorian shadowbox hung in my Great-Aunt Allie’s parlor for years. Mine: The wreath

In Victorian England, the effect could barely have been more shocking. Wilde's grandson's stage scandal 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Mizer flatters you with an invitation to his downtown studio—the parlor of the Victorian house he shares with his mother. The Obsessive Photographer Behind America’s First Gay Magazine 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The sexualised girl, she argues, has replaced the fallen woman of Victorian literature as a figure of concern – and yet for Egan this says more about those expressing their concern rather than its object. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z

The name came from a random page in a Victorian book of palmistry. At Clubbed Thumb, Nurturing a Theater of the Weird 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

I was blown away by these beautifully preserved Victorian mansions and houses. A Latina Anne of Green Gables: Andi Teran on 'Ana of California' 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

This month the theme is “History Illuminated,” offering young participants a chance to learn about the building’s Victorian lighting and stained glass, and to use them as inspiration for their own artwork. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 13-19 2012-01-12T22:22:26Z

Still, if there is a heaven, one of the many mansions it must contain is a red brick Victorian building, all wood and shelves, waiting for me. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The opening episode – where Victorian detective Edmund Reed investigates the killing of a Whitechapel woman and seemingly a return to the back alleys for Jack The Ripper - is available on iPlayer. Catch-up TV guide: from Sons Of Anarchy to Simon Amstell 2013-01-05T00:06:15Z

On his one morning off, Mr. Wuest, an amateur photographer, was looking for something slightly grittier than riding cable cars and shooting Victorian painted ladies. Practical Traveler: Click Here for an Offbeat Experience 2012-07-04T14:07:40Z

The Victorian novel routinely used individual characters as emblems of wider social and geographical realities, to the extent that its concept of character often strikes the modern reader as stylised and lacking in reality. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z

Lockwood de Forest, a Victorian furniture designer, produced entire paneled rooms out of imported Indian teak for elite clients like Andrew Carnegie and the painter Frederic Edwin Church. Antiques: Moonlight and More From a Victorian Artist 2011-03-03T22:12:19Z

Even in the early Victorian era, this mild romp was an antique. Review: ‘London Assurance’ Minds Its Manners 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

In those early years of the 20th century, Victorians such as Thomas Hardy, HG Wells, Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle still dominated. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, an impeccable dresser, chose colors of mourning, too: the demi-deuil of the Victorians, mauve and gray. Inaugural Fashion: White Is a Color of Mourning 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Taylor displayed breathtaking technique in the vigorous rhythms of "The Banjo," one of Gottschalk's bravura pieces whose inventive use of the piano's upper register reportedly thrilled Victorian America. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

The actress recalled her own experience growing up in an old-fashioned Texas household with a military father whom she described as a "Victorian fundamentalist." Why play Big Edie in the 'Grey Gardens' musical? Betty Buckley loves 'raw, naturalistic' characters 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

John Ruskin, the excitable Victorian critic, gassed up “Two Women on a Balcony” in one of his later books as “the best picture in the world.” Mysteries of a Venetian Perfectionist Revealed in Washington 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

But there are maintenance costs with character properties, too – those old Victorian windows can cost a fortune to fix up, I hear. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The day-to-day life of the Victorian, as it is made up of tasks and things, belies the day-to-day mind of the Victorian—the preoccupations, superstitions, beliefs and ideals of an entire society. The strange and magical Victorian wonders of “Penny Dreadful” suffer no sophomore slump 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

An artistically satisfying after-hours event goes further than simply throwing together quirky attractions, like a modern-day version of a Victorian fun fair for young professionals. Arts: After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums: An Uneven Mix 2010-04-17T00:02:00Z

They’re both timeless and contemporary, immortal but changeable, appearing in Victorian dress or punk attire, depending on what century and culture they’re moving through, and reflecting changing attitudes. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

This dude Charles Booth did his Victorian poverty maps in the capital, not in Birmingham or Edinburgh, and that provides a neat device. TV review: The Secret History of Our Streets 2012-06-20T21:01:01Z

Roger's Fosca is not some ugly duckling but a lonely, passionate woman who resembles a slender Victorian governess rather than the madwoman in the attic: more Jane Eyre than Mrs Rochester. Review 2010-09-22T10:00:00Z

To lighten the look, the designing duo interspersed white or pretty Victorian floral patterns into the basic black palette. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z

The Victorians had a big problem with make-up, as did the great Olivier: he couldn't really embrace Desdemona in case he got smudges on her like that. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z

He particularly praised its acute handling of the political and social context in which music hall was able to thrive in Victorian times. John Major's music hall history makes Theatre Book prize shortlist 2013-04-03T11:03:43Z

There is a long and rich tradition in this field, and some excellent examples, from the Victorian writers on. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-02-27T10:55:50Z

In the Victorian era, a great number of books were written in the "voices" of animals, and most of them were written by women, against the grain of patrician Victorian reason. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

The center of town is appealingly quaint: narrow tree-covered streets lined with ornate Victorian gingerbread town houses. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z

A seaside hotel full of Victorian charm offers views of the North Sea. Cruising the North Sea’s wild — and sometimes vanishing — Farne Islands 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Many of these stately homes, as the English call them, were built in Victorian times by ridiculously rich nobles and aristocrats. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

By the 1960s, faded Victorian buildings were as popular as whalebone corsets. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

You might detect the shades of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” and Henry James’s spooky Victorian tales or find other echoes and glimmerings to parse with your friends after the movie. Movie Review: ?Keyhole,? Directed by Guy Maddin, With Jason Patric 2012-04-05T22:59:39Z

Berry’s comedy about a policeman romping swearily around rat-ridden Victorian London was described by the Guardian review as “a heady mix of period detail, gleeful anachronism and baroque profanity.” Nigel Farage furious over TV show assassinating 'Neil Fromage' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Under Victorian patriarchy, women had no choices, which sometimes drove them mad. A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

To prove her point, she's soon tucking into a meal at a chop house similar to ones that thrived in London during Victorian times. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z

By the turn of the 20th century, they were out of sight and out of mind, dismissed as examples of Victorian "bad taste." John Martin, "master of apocalypse," gets rare show 2011-09-19T15:59:40Z

In the Victorian era, for example, you might say, "My chuckaboo is smothering a parrot" to describe a good friend who was sipping on an absinthe neat. From GOAT to ghost: Here are America’s 30 most googled slang terms 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

The neglected coach house that she turns into an art studio is the only comfort she takes in “the Lodge,” the rural Victorian villa that gives her the willies, but that Tom insisted they buy. Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

It was the first time Dylan had played the cavernous Victorian venue since the controversial shows 47 years ago which became the stuff of legend. Bob Dylan whips up tempest in return to 1966 London venue 2013-11-28T13:46:59Z

Very often these Victorian seekers also had other, more personal motives. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z

The Victorian era was a devout age, and Evangelical Christianity was pervasive by the 1830s. The bizarre social history of beds 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

The special pleasure of this series, beyond the mysteries Finch concocts, is how nicely he sets his stories against the background of Victorian England. The civilized crime fiction of Charles Finch 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The result is a kind of self-portrait timeline that not only resembles a stretched-out closet or shop window but also has aspects of a museum display, namely a Victorian ottoman pouf. Museum & Gallery Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Instead, I discover Moorcock with his feet up in the den of a charming Victorian house, surrounded by books, cats and a clutter of antique furniture. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

Steel was the defining material of the Victorian era, allowing engineers to create suspension bridges, railways, steam engines and passenger liners. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Until it closed last month, Dickens World, a themed attraction in Kent, England, promised visitors a tour through the “atmospheric streets, courtyards and alleyways of Victorian England.” The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

It riffs on the legacy of Alexander Girard, the industrial and textile designer who collaborated with Eero Saarinen on Miller House and once proposed a color scheme for all the Victorian storefronts on Washington Street. Columbus, Ind., Renews Its Big Design Legacy 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Her authority drains away, however, when dealing with less material aspects of Victorian life, the sort that can't be deduced from a sickle, snood or tincture. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

Here she is wearing neo-Versace prints; here again wearing sequins and feathers; here clad in her most innovative outfit, the one that involves a slacker’s knit wool cap worn with a proper Victorian lady’s veil. On the Runway Blog: Anna Dello Russo, Always the Fashion Chameleon 2012-01-16T21:55:05Z

These people — the Victorians refer to them as “touched” — are a threat to the status quo. Versatile Tom Riley tackles sci-fi fantasy in ‘The Nevers’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The E was for Edith, and our Ms. Nesbit was a formidable English writer of ghost stories, writing in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Review | The ultimate holiday gift: Rereading ‘Little Women’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

For ages 13 and older: In this fantasy/alternate-world debut by Olympia-based Hamilton, Victorian England is home to both royalty and faeries. Local Books: Victory in Ethiopia, a faerie ring 2011-11-14T21:48:04Z

The Victorians destroyed so much of our understanding of the middle ages; their history of it made the knights all shiny. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

If you write a bank robbery in the Victorian era: historical crime fiction. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z

So his central presence in “The Limehouse Golem,” a baroque Victorian whodunit set in London’s East End, is like a wink-wink signal that what we’re seeing is being played for laughs, not scares. Review: In ‘The Limehouse Golem,’ Bawdy Limericks and Bloody Corpses 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Today marks the bicentenary of the birth of Victorian author Charles Dickens. VIDEO: Dickens's London: Prison to the pub 2012-02-07T02:14:32Z

The 7,000-square-foot space, decorated with reclaimed brick and mirrored tiles, is not only the company’s largest store, but also the first to carry the Vintage Loves collection, which includes many one-of-a-kind Victorian garments. Openings and Sales in New York City Starting April 5 2012-04-04T22:09:46Z

As well as the rarity value, the book offers a unique insight into life on the Norfolk Broads, illustrating many aspects of Victorian Broadland life, including reed-cutting, eel fishing, shooting, sailing and even water-lily collecting. 'Rare' Emerson book set for auction 2013-09-25T06:54:33Z

From Victorian houses on Governors Island to public parks and piers, all the city’s a stage at this roving festival, or at least all of Lower Manhattan. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Initially, he began mocking up entire Victorian rooms, except their chaises longues were covered, not in velvet and silk chintz, but in Dutch wax. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

The contestants whip up confections from the Victorian era — a raised game pie, and a charlotte russe — before tackling cream-filled patisserie in the quarterfinals. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Tallulah’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But her superb Mrs. Lovett is Dickensian in the truest sense of the word, a portrait of an ordinary middle-class woman who believes she believes in the Victorian pieties she pays lip service to. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

Actually, that wasn't the subject, it was merely the rationale or excuse for what was in reality a Victorian freak show with a touch of modern irony thrown in for fashion's sake. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

Finally, as much as I hate sounding like your Victorian auntie, the best piece of advice I can give is simply not to binge drink. You swore off tequila for good. Here’s how to enjoy the alcohol that once betrayed you. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The parterre garden is a full-throated serenade to its Victorian progenitors. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

I tell him the story about Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope who, when he was commuting to his day job, would write novels. Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z

There’s also the General Post Office, a handsome Victorian structure now occupied by apartments and bars. In Leeds, England, searching for the city’s many owls is a real hoot

In the distance, I can see the Victorian clock on the Balmoral hotel reads half-four. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z

The grounds of Mohonk Mountain House, an imposing Victorian hotel designated a national historic landmark, include 28 miles of groomed and tracked trails that offer dramatic views of the Wallkill and Rondout valleys. Skiing Without the Lift Lines and Without the Long Drive 2011-02-03T23:15:27Z

For all their austere reputation, Victorians knew how to throw a Christmas party. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

When you think of San Francisco, you picture those hilly streets and Victorian houses. | Sean Patrick Maylone 2011-08-10T17:36:15Z

Readers come from a wide range of backgrounds, including those who were new to the novel and well-versed Victorians and other academics who offered insights into the Gothic age, said Lauren VanDenBerg, another reader. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

It wasn't an actual set: it was an old Victorian gothic revival house a paddock away from the studios that had been used for other films, including the horror movie The Innocents. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z

“To the Lighthouse” encapsulates Woolf’s love and longing for her mother — as well as her conflicted view of her mother’s vision of Victorian womanhood. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

In this lively dance-theater production, the Victorian Alice goes down the rabbit hole to a Wonderland that is even weirder than the one Lewis Carroll conjured: contemporary New York City. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

“It is instead the picture of a severely repressed, even twisted, Victorian gentleman.” Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

A Victorian newspaper account of an inquest shows how strong the dread of the workhouse was among the poor. Workhouse exhibition reveals hardship and disease from a not-so-distant past 2013-03-12T16:22:45Z

The centre, The House of Illustration, is planned for a Victorian building in King's Cross near the Guardian office which will also be the new home of Central St Martins art college. Quentin Blake drawings auctioned to raise money for illustration museum 2010-12-13T16:57:00Z

Darwin was a leading figure of the Victorian scientific establishment, and is justly celebrated for his lifelong study of the evolutionary mechanism. Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011-02-26T00:07:55Z

After their first separation, Hart, née Harold, went to live with Grace’s parents in an old Victorian house with two twin towers on Cleveland’s East 115th Street. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z

Once an elegant resort lined with Victorian mansions, it waned in popularity after World War II, and neighborhoods were razed to make way for public housing projects. Taking the a Train to Summer 2011-06-15T21:30:41Z

Holmes’s career and the 1895 investigation into his “castle” is one of the most fascinating chapters in the annals of Victorian crime. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

She says she often questioned why she couldn't just be happy, despite the showcase Victorian home, the cleaning lady, the nannies and the money. Lemak: 'They didn't get to live their lives' 2012-03-25T19:40:00Z

It sounds like it belongs in Victorian stage melodrama and that is mostly where it stayed. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

She graduated with a degree in drama from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, and immediately landed her first film project, the Australian-British film, A Few Best Men. Elizabeth Debicki on Hollywood: 'I don’t think I even really dreamed of this' 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But off the busy high street, there was another, quieter Putney: the established late-19th-century suburb of mansion flats, subdivided Victorian terraces and Edwardian brick and stone villas, typically "semi-detached" but often quite sizeable. Tony Judt: My London 2010-08-13T23:05:00Z

But just off the main thoroughfare, on a peaceful circular plaza amid red-brick Victorian apartment blocks, is a restaurant that offers a brief glimpse at the unvarnished character of the area’s renaissance. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z

Whatever the subject — Victorian literature, resistance movements, “Game of Thrones” — she is not only knowledgeable, but interesting — interesting and funny, interesting and incisive. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Victorian taste for big hats with plumage led to near extinction of the Everglades’ snowy egrets and other wading birds, with more than five million birds killed annually by 1900. Tears for the Magnificent and Shrinking Everglades, a ‘River of Grass’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

The popularity of such pictures well into the 20th century proves that they were not just a Victorian curio, but appealed to profound imaginative longings. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

Starting with Victorians such as Marx, Mill and Marshall, Nasar attempts to link them to successive generations of economists who grappled with the promises and challenges of industrial-era capitalism. Sylvia Nasar's 'Grand Pursuit' devalued by errors 2011-09-07T20:10:05Z

As Judith Flanders shows in The Invention of Murder, the current fascination with certain murders has a long historical precedence, and it goes back further than the Victorian era. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

In a keynote address at the Victorians Institute conference held at the University of Virginia in October, Mr. Cohen presented preliminary findings of that research. ArtsBeat: Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back 2010-12-03T22:49:00Z

“A lot of women didn’t have the access or resources to record history, but it’s not just white, middle-class women — especially in the Victorian period — that are the movers and shakers here,” Ms. Micucci said. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Nightly rates vary depending on the day you book this 19th-century Victorian home. 'A Christmas Story' House available for overnight Christmas stays 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

As it turned out, a Victorian view of Islay is pretty modern. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Here to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, they continue a legacy of visits initiated by so many British romantics and Victorians, including the eponymous queen herself. Paradise found: Lago Maggiore, the ‘Eden of Italy‘ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

It is an essential part of the world of the Victorians, who shaped modern industrial Britain and in whose big footsteps we walk. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

In that little record-listening booth at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, I quickly understood why Victorian mothers refused to allow their daughters to hear such music. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Marchpane opened in 1989 but feels as though it’s been there since the Victorian era. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. Edward Carey discusses his gothic adventure, 'Heap House' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Victorian girls playing with their dolls and dolls' house. The forgotten sister of the woman who brought Kropotkin the anarchist to Leeds' poshest suburb 2013-01-15T11:16:40Z

Janet Douglas lectures in modern history at Leeds Metropolitan University and chairs the Victorian Society's West Yorkshire branch. The forgotten sister of the woman who brought Kropotkin the anarchist to Leeds' poshest suburb 2013-01-15T11:16:40Z

Why, you may wonder, is Clive’s wife being played by the lean Wyatt Fenner in a full Victorian dress and a wig that doesn’t quite hide his sideburns? Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

It told you a great deal about the life and work of the Victorian photographer/scientist/entertainer/serial name-changer/murderer/self-publicist and left you wanting to know more. True Stories: The Battle for Barking 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

Wings of the house that were added in Victorian times will be removed and damp, damage from tree roots and other problems will be fixed. JMW Turner's house 'saved' by grant 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

In many ways it is like so many of the UK's provincial , with its Victorian paintings, stuffed animals and meteorites. Ulster Museum takes top arts prize 2010-06-30T18:35:00Z

A Victorian dictum, now out of fashion, states that children should be seen, not heard. Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Catching a husband and then resisting sex as much as possible was the Victorian  ideal. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

The setting is a fantasy city with Victorian flourishes and an immigration crisis involving a population of winged-fairy refugees. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Dark Crystal’ and ‘Keeping Faith’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

December 21, St. Thomas's day, was for many Victorians the first event of the Christmas season, though it wasn't a particularly happy one. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

This mad cavalcade of 3-D cartoonery stretches along the quiet, hilly residential street where lovely Victorians, bungalows and cottages incongruously meet recycled industrial and domestic detritus. In Sebastopol, Calif., recycled junk sculptures with a Wine Country backdrop 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Feminist scholars have noted that Charles Darwin’s focus on aggressive males vying to impregnate “choosy” females echoed notions of proper Victorian behavior. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

It remained banned in the UK until 1961, although it could be legally obtained in countries such as New Zealand throughout the Victorian era. Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z

But in Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson’s complete revamp along feminist lines for the Shaw Festival, there’s little left of the original but the gaslit Victorian setting and the general theme of mind control. Blame Canada (or at Least Ontario) for a Wealth of Smart Revivals 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The production will emphasize the work’s satire of Victorian mores, and do away with racially charged performance tics and excessive bowing and shuffling in its choreography. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Teeming with Victorian artifacts, “Dickens and London” is the UK’s first major display on the novelist in more than four decades. Great Celebrations: 6 Ways to Ring In Dickens? Bicentennial 2012-01-19T11:58:17Z

"He was profoundly a Victorian gentleman, or tried to be," says Twain biographer Ron Powers. Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored 2011-01-07T19:08:15Z

Although this work’s whole spirit belongs in the medieval age of chivalry, all too often it’s set in the Tudor or Victorian eras. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ From Mariinsky Ballet, Broadcast Live 2013-06-10T22:31:51Z

Victorian attitudes still held sway: it was only a few months after the January 1965 funeral of Winston Churchill – a world event and a major marker in British life. Rough Stones 2012-11-05T16:09:28Z

If the stereotype is true, without gay rescuers the Victorian homes of San Francisco and the belfries of Savannah would be as good as firewood. Queer/Art/Film Series at IFC Center 2012-03-16T15:03:25Z

Omid Safi, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Duke University, says that it was in the Victorian period that readers in the West began to uncouple mystical poetry from its Islamic roots. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The channel’s flagship autumn offering is a fresh, funny take on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Victorian romp, co-produced with Amazon. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Plenty of the Victorian setting also seems quaint. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z

At the back of a large Victorian house, we were met with a smell of leaking sewage, and the once-white walls were now filthy and soot-stained. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Leaving the museum, we drive into Eatonton’s historic district, with more than 100 antebellum and Victorian homes. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea

The exhibition displays British board games from the Georgian and Victorian eras. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

It looks like something that shouldn't exist in a modern capital – a Victorian punishment nightmare, echoing with the sound of banging doors and shouting. Last night's TV 2010-05-11T07:00:00Z

The interior is classic New York Victorian: tin ceilings, mahogany tables, sconces, wooden floorboards and panelling. 10 of the best Irish bars in New York 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

At times, the cramped proportions of the Victorian house seem too influential on the whole work, but as a pendant to the spacious original gallery its smallness makes sense. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

She interweaves the Victorians’ writings about body image with their nonverbal habits — whether they groomed themselves or paid a barber for a shave, what muscles they used to lift a pail or squeeze an udder. A Corporeal History of the 19th Century 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Initially, Fauset’s work was dismissed as sentimental and Victorian, primarily because she dealt with ‘women’s issues,’ centering on the marriage plot,” Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, said. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Last weekend the town celebrated its Victorian Holiday weekend, which included the auditorium’s live Nativity made up of local children. The Jersey Shore, a Month After Hurricane Sandy 2012-12-13T22:55:52Z

Or, parlor games as they used to be called, harking back to Victorian times, but basically meaning: a game played indoors that doesn't require any special tools. "Only Murders in the Building": Inside Oliver's deadly game night 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

But her Victorian novels have found a new resonance decades later, with their themes of love, deception and the capacity of women, particularly those disadvantaged by class, to overturn the social order by swapping identities. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

And so we meet The Doctor, withdrawn and sulking atop a cloud in Victorian London and refusing to make Christmas plans. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012 2012-12-25T18:15:00Z

Norman tells us: "A feeling of excitement and expectation pulsed through the crusty old Victorian metropolis at every level." Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z

“Mudlark” is an old term, dating back at least to Victorian river scavengers, and their modern-day counterparts took the name for themselves with a certain inverse pride. T Magazine: The Wading Game 2011-05-20T18:06:59Z

Volunteers have been invited to help bring all 1,101 editions into the digital age, making them accessible to an audience as wide as the 300,000 Victorians who bought the periodical weekly. Charles Dickens bicentenary: Call for online editors to save forgotten journal 2011-08-06T21:28:35Z

Start at Braye Harbour and head west along the north coast to Fort Tourgis, the largest of the Victorian fortresses and a great place to explore. 10 great walks on Britain's tiny islands 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

That last theory is arguably convincing when you factor in that Lowry was born in 1887, the end of the Victorian age. LS Lowry exhibition in Salford reveals artist's dark side 2013-06-19T16:33:18Z

The stations also resembled their above-ground cousins – look at the cathedral-like platform five at Baker Street, which has been restored to its Victorian glory. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z

Most of the owls I saw in Britain had been stuffed during the Victorian era. Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy 2013-04-13T20:31:46Z

He is a very recognisable figure, tall and fat with a Victorian thicket of beard. My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

In the late Victorian era, though, unscrupulous entrepreneurs frequently defrauded Indian “jugglers” — a term that included magicians — who had been lured west to amaze crowds at various international expositions. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

He read and read, from the Bible to Victorian fiction, and wrote what became his first published novel, the radio satire “Aurora Dawn.” Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Shakespeare does Hobart in Tasmania, which once supplied the whale oil that kept Victorian London illuminated and was described as "the cesspit of the Empire". Radio review: from Unknown Cities to Ode To Finchleystrasse 2013-04-20T05:00:11Z

She wasn’t particularly affected by the classist and sexist setting of Victorian Dublin, though. Carpetbagger Blog: And on This Floor, a Cross-Cultural Who's Who 2011-12-16T15:15:05Z

During the industrial boom of the late 19th century, Victorian morals prevailed and the temperance movement was in full force. Glasgow surprises with art, design and culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The block, where traffic funnels out from the Lincoln Tunnel, couldn’t be more different from the Distillery District, an area of stylishly restored Victorian industrial architecture: lots of red brick everywhere. Here’s One Canadian Theater Company That Isn’t Afraid to Show Off 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Holder appeared opposite Rex Harrison as the titular Victorian doctor who can communicate with animals. Geoffrey Holder: Five of his memorable movie roles 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Perhaps it was for this reason that Dunwich became a place of pilgrimage for melancholy poets of the Victorian age.” Footsteps: Rambling With W. G. Sebald in East Anglia 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z

The Big Chill looks like a meeting of Victorian church elders compared to this lot. Friends from College: why Generation X can’t grow up 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Though subtitled “The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer,” his book could be described more accurately as Scotland Yard’s quest for the evidence that would convict the one man they suspected all along. Review | A true-crime columnist turns his attention to Victorian-era serial killer Thomas Neill Cream 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

In a hokey stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” by the Bedlam theater company, a Victorian woman learns the hard way that some decisions are best made on one’s own. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Now she lives around the corner from the Workshop’s building; her mom owns the restaurant down the street, and that house that everyone saw in the news, the beautiful Victorian thrown off its foundation? Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z

The first lady pragmatically had Victorian pieces excavated from government warehouses and “made sure that delicate fringes and tassels were not included in window treatments accessible to souvenir-seeking visitors,” the authors note. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

This 1960 film adaptation starts its story in the same Victorian time period that the original book came out. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The First Lady’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

This month the theme is “History Illuminated,” offering young participants a chance to learn about the building’s Victorian lighting and stained glass and to use them as inspiration for their own artwork. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 20-26 2012-01-19T21:42:34Z

That’s the aesthetic at the couple’s own home, a Victorian farmhouse set on 40 acres of land outside Waco that makes frequent appearances on the show. For Joanna Gaines, Home Is the Heart of a Food and Design Empire 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

But it is a museum of Victorian architecture. New Beach Destination on the Jersey Shore? Asbury Park 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Back home in Biloxi, Miss., he mixed and matched Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Asian styles with insouciant, seemingly effortless panache. Review: In ‘No Two Alike,’ George Ohr’s Pottery Plays on Convention 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The published version is a racy tale of imperial misadventure and Victorian jihadism, but does something more important – namely what Robert Burns, cousin of Alexander Burnes, described as: "To see ourselves as others see us." William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

The lingering morality of the Victorian age pushed imaginations inward – in those single beds of the aesthetes – to feast on macabre visions of sin. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z

And every time the book’s 21st-century chapters refer to new technology, they contrast sharply with late Victorian glamor. Books of The Times: A Sherlock Holmes Tale That?s Hardly Elementary 2010-12-16T07:05:12Z

Many of the London theaters Simpson caters for are Victorian jewel-boxes: tight, ornate spaces built with more attention to gradations of social class than to comfort. London Theatergoers Are on the Edge of His Seats 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

His early works for children are great fun, especially the four Sally Lockhart novels, set in Victorian England - each one, Pullman says, "with a genuine cliché of melodrama right at the heart of it." Profile: Philip Pullman 2011-03-30T12:07:35Z

It’s ironic in a sort of mordant way that we need to travel to the macabre, supernatural underbelly of Victorian London to find characters that are legitimately relatable. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hart views this work as capturing “a history of violence against women’s bodies” that will especially resonate in a heavily decorated Victorian setting. In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Her cause was to imbue today’s social policies with a Victorian moral sense. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, the Glimmerglass production of “Sweeney Todd,” Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical of gleeful comeuppance in Victorian England, seems as convinced as Mr. Trump that the world has gone terribly, chaotically wrong. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“At Dickens camp, there are faculty seminars, graduate writing colloquiums, and teaching workshops, not to mention Victorian tea, a Victorian dance, and, presumably, summer romance for graduate students, the less Victorian the better.” Sunday Reading: Summer Travel 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

Called the Shakespeare Memorial theatre when it opened in 1879, it was a flamboyant piece of Victorian gothic until fire struck in 1926. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z

“I wanted to create a new kind of L’Wren girl,” said the designer backstage, referring to “fluidity, architecture, rich and textured fabrics and Victorian colors.” Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z

Cowboys were once the outcasts of Victorian American society. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

But Victorian male chauvinism prevailed: Women were refused degrees and barred from the university library. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

This is familiar territory for Price; in 2012 she wrote “How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain.” Review | Looking at books as more than just vessels for information or entertainment 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

"Elementary my dear Litefoot," says the Doctor, wearing a deerstalker, to a scientist with a distinctly Watson-ish quality, whose housekeeper is called Mrs Hudson, as the fog of Victorian London whirls outside. The Talons Of Weng Chiang: Doctor Who classic episode #9 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z

And rose gold, which gained popularity in the Victorian era and resembles Rubedo, gets its rosy hue from copper. Tiffany?s Rubedo Line Stirs Debate Over Meaning of Metal 2012-04-04T22:23:49Z

Like five vice presidential families before them, Joe and Jill Biden are moving out of the Victorian house at 1 Observatory Circle in Northwest, the official vice-presidential residence, to make way for a new family. As the Bidens pack up, a look at their mark on the vice president’s residence 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Here was a young woman born in Victorian England, holding her own while living among some of the great intellectuals of her time — and ours. Eleanor Marx led a revolutionary life with a tragic ending 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Art Party: Filthy Velvet Immersive Victorian gothic cabaret features drag, burlesque and more. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 15-22: 'Bright Star,' 'In the Heights' and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Victorian village themed shops, stage shows, concerts, Living Nativity, Santa’s Village, food, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

“Some people dismiss his work as Victorian whimsy, but it’s really an extraordinary piece,” Ms. Hansen, who also owns a Potter featuring a monkey riding a goat, said in an interview. The Bride and Groom Are Kittens. At Death They Did Not Part. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

In Victorian England, it meant visiting family and friends who couldn’t attend the wedding. Why you should consider a delayed honeymoon 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

After encouraging the sympathetic referee to continue the match, he carried off a postgame interview that takes gentlemanly restraint to levels heretofore unseen outside Victorian drawing rooms. Are American sports fans classier? 2013-01-31T18:33:00Z

The No. 23 chugs away, leaving me on Fleet Street in front of the Victorian crazy castle that houses the Royal Courts of Justice — this whole area is a hotbed of lawyers. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

William Booth’s famous poverty maps, which the social reformer used to catalogue affluence and indigence in late Victorian London, don’t extend this far south. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Despite only a small number of his poems appearing during his lifetime, Hopkins is regarded as one of the Victorian era's greatest poets. Bodleian Library buys Hopkins poem 2013-05-02T10:08:49Z

In Thackeray's Victorian novel Vanity Fair, his tremendous, and troubling, portrait of George IV that hangs today in the Wallace Collection is cited as an icon of the past age. Thomas Lawrence exhibition shows royals need to have the common touch 2010-11-24T14:31:00Z

A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers." The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review 2012-05-31T07:00:02Z

Reminiscent of Victorian ironwork — a form that emulated nature even as the Industrial Revolution swept it away — Greene's paintings possess the same sense of nostalgia for a vanished world. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Emerging from a constrained Victorian era, these women, with great aplomb, would assert their status in theatrical manners: one de Meyer muse would often drift down Venice’s Grand Canal with a leopard in her lap. Portraits of a Lady | Baron Adolph de Meyer 2010-03-04T16:40:00Z

If not, try The Victorian in the Wall which I haven't seen, but seems widely admired. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z

The episode started with the Tardis arriving in Victorian London, in the mouth of a rampaging dinosaur that it had accidentally dragged along for the ride from prehistory. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

The restaurant, next to a convenience store on a block of Victorian homes, has no sign. When ‘Sir’ and ‘Ma’am’ Miss the Mark: Restaurants Rethink Gender’s Role in Service 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

It has this mixture of stately Victorian and modernist architecture. Co-creator of ‘Saw’ and ‘Insidious’ looks forward — and backward — with sci-fi thriller ‘Upgrade.’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

"Detective-fever" led to the thought that there must be secret sexual passions gratified in this large Victorian household. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z

Now it is a splendid Victorian dwelling, kaleidoscopic in hues of magenta, turquoise and gold. Uncovering Gay History in San Francisco 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

The novel is infused with longing and rich with detail about the social reforms of the Victorian era, the quest for rights and freedom for women and slaves, for the disabled and the poor. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

His sense of anger at the social injustice of Victorian Britain runs through his work and helps explain his appeal to later generations. Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens 2012-02-03T15:10:56Z

More fundamentally, they’re all manifestations of Joyce Carol Oates: excitable Victorians, fascinated by conformity and fear. A Dystopian Thriller From Joyce Carol Oates 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The great Victorians were masters of double lives: Lewis Carroll at Oxford; Trollope in the post office; Disraeli in politics; Dickens in virtually any journalistic activity you care to mention. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z

Attention spans may be shrinking to the blink of an eye or two, but there are still some of us who would rather read a fat Victorian novel than plow through a day’s tweets. Forget Twitter. I’d Rather Binge Theater. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

From here Kalka deconstructs the malleability of cake, Emma Bovary’s kitschy wedding dinner, and the symbolic meaning in Victorian England of mutton chops and celery stalks. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Sometimes she dresses up like the heroine of a Victorian novel – she collected vintage clothes long before it was fashionable – or as Alice about to disappear through the looking glass. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z

Although Murphy revels in Victorian criminal trials and popular outcries, his skimpy knowledge of the administration and influence of the royal court hobbles his book. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z

The show, set in Victorian England, incorporates characters from classic British novels of the era — Dr. Frankenstein and his monsters, Dorian Gray and Dracula — to creepy, head-spinning ends. Q. and A. With Eva Green: Darkly, Demonically, Daringly ‘Dreadful’ 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Victorian ceramics from the collection of Sarah Whittingham, whose book on fern motifs came out last month. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z

For a step back in time, visit Michigan's Mackinac Island, which is reminiscent of a Victorian luxury getaway. America's Island Paradises 2010-07-12T22:00:00Z

Based upon Longfellow's poem, it was first performed in 1886, and became second only to Handel's Messiah in popularity in Victorian England, when it was regarded as the greatest of Sullivan's serious works. Field Day, Haim, Metz: this week's new live music 2013-05-25T05:00:12Z

It took 12 years for Marriott to restore, salvage and update the red brick Victorian behemoth in King’s Cross. | St. Pancras Renaissance, London 2011-05-27T16:28:50Z

Since the era of the Victorian stiff upper lip, there has been a sense that it’s shameful for a man to cry, that it’s too much an advertisement of his own self-interest. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

New Court replaces a smaller headquarters from the 1960s, which replaced a Victorian one. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z

Bed & breakfast in an antebellum house 10 minutes outside Athens with Victorian furnishings for those who want to go the full Old South. Beyond tailgate ribs and ’tater salad: The burgeoning food scene in Athens, Ga. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

If regional collections do start selling off art, Victorian paintings are in the firing line as they are both abundant and popular, with plenty of collectors keen to buy them. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

But sometimes they find old-timey safes and guns and bullets, and all those knives and things Victorians threw over the bridge probably to get away with some crime. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: David Rowan/Tate It might help us picture the Britain that is being made if we compare two paintings – one a Victorian favourite, the other dating from the very dawn of the 20th century. Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z

Turkey galantine — a stuffed, boiled, and gelatinized cold confection — was a particular favorite for the upper classes in Victorian England. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

San Francisco No city in America offers unique Victorian charm, dramatic mountain and sea views and pioneering architecture. Forbes Guide To Worldwide Travel 2010-03-16T21:00:00Z

Instead of dreamy young schoolgirls adorning pint-size Victorian mansions, today’s miniaturists are creating perfect parallel universes in the vein of the Thorne Miniature Rooms on permanent exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Miniacs Live in a Small, Small World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

A different sort of geek might be drawn to “Orchestrion,” given its whiff of Victorian futurism, a hallmark of the steampunk aesthetic. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z

She’s working on a Ph.D. in Victorian literature but even belittles the grant she’s received: “There are a couple of bigger ones,” she says gloomily when Mark offers congratulations. Review: In ‘Engagements,’ Meet Me in the Gazebo for Spite and Hauteur 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

To a degree that would surprise and perplex New Yorkers, the Victorian age lives on in the city and its art institutions, even after decades of change and update. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

What was the motivation for Victorian Britain to march in, trampling over a rich culture they didn't try to understand? TV highlights 28/05/2012 2012-05-27T19:00:02Z

Inside a grass hut, visitors can gaze upon the Victorian orchid hunter’s tools of the trade. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

We were told the three-story Victorian was being sold “as is” after the longtime owners, a couple, had died tragically. The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Freshly regenerated, his Doctor ambles round Victorian London wild-eyed in a nightshirt, insulting people while struggling to make sense of himself and his surroundings, like a sort of wise-cracking King Lear. Peter Capaldi: 'I know how to work the Tardis. I've known for a long time' 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Likewise, fancy velvets and silks especially shipped from India feature on quilts made for well-to-do Victorian housewives, illustrating the luxury in which rich families were basking. Are the V&A's quilts art? 2010-04-14T16:38:00Z

It's converted from a Victorian prison and you can sleep in one of the former cells, which makes a change from the usual bland hotels. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

The Victorians began to enjoy the idea of themselves as latter-day Venetians, independent merchants at the centre of a great trading empire. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

The Victorians were on to something good, she says. 'Grief is like a tsunami' 2010-07-10T23:02:00Z

The six-storey extension with a superb bridged atrium and grand staircase at its heart completely transforms the museum, replacing the late Victorian additions and allowing a flood of natural light. Rick Mather obituary 2013-04-29T17:02:08Z

The setting for the company’s first children’s production, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was a Victorian toy room, and some audience feedback judged the show to be “overly kiddie fare,” Mr. Sheader said. In London, a Bloody ?Macbeth,? for Children 2010-07-16T22:40:00Z

Set in the fittingly decadent surrounds of an elegantly restored Victorian Turkish bathhouse, the Boom Boom Club and this listed Bishopsgate beauty are a perfect pairing. This week's new clubs 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

There are high chairs with built-in footrests, to give a clear view from the back of Victorian balconies where front-row patrons would once have sat directly on a low step. London Theatergoers Are on the Edge of His Seats 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

The eight-bedroom Victorian house in Edinburgh belonging to the Harry Potter author is listed for sale on the website of real estate agents Rettie. JK Rowling's former Edinburgh home for sale 2012-09-21T11:31:05Z

It’s ironic, or at least strange, that his work has come to stand as a kind of baseline, middle-C of mainstream Victorian melodrama, because he himself was not a mainstream individual. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z

A Victorian spiritualist, she began obsessively creating drawings guided by a spirit known as Myrninerest, whose "signature" was often seen in the corner. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z

Look behind the occasional neglect and what you have is one of England's greatest Victorian suburbs. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z

“We are slasher fiction and an updated version of a Victorian classic, so that in itself plays into the world of fan obsession,” he ponders. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

You mean that bearded and bespectacled Victorian word-factory with his hemming and hawing and endlessly long sentences? A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

If I lived in a Manhattan apartment I suppose I might have collected more contemporary things, but as it is my house is Victorian/Edwardian so much of it is modern British. Bryan Ferry unveils his art collection 2010-06-04T17:21:00Z

A Venetian scene in the same room, purportedly an 18th-century view, looks grimly Victorian. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z

You’d probably guess as much after paging through Cook’s Illustrated, the oddly Victorian black-and-white cooking manual that Kimball began 19 years ago and continues to edit and publish every other month. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

The Victorians, so proud of their newly emerging manufacturing capabilities, put pictures of their factories boldly in the centre of their branding. The Museum of Brands, Notting Hill, London 2012-09-28T21:45:02Z

Hemmed in by Jewish and Catholic sexual norms—and also by Victorian prissiness—the first right that we thought to exercise was the right to Eros. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

And it directed that the foundation convert Mr. Indiana’s house, a distinguished but dilapidated 140-year-old Victorian confection with peeling paint and weeds popping through the sidewalk, into a museum. How Robert Indiana’s Caretaker Came to Control His Artistic Legacy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

A Victorian invalid who was the victim of her father’s tyranny. Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

On the site of a former Victorian school, it looks a bit like a prefab school extension – which is exactly what this building method is more usually used for. The future's communal: meet the UK's self-build pioneers 2013-05-07T06:29:01Z

I recommend them to read Lytton Strachey's radical biography Eminent Victorians , which advocated change and warned readers against safety and repetition. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

I was brought up in a Victorian girls-only school with nuns, and my parents were extremely conservative. My life is full of religion and education – but no men 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The Nomad team considers the location as a partner in the screening of the film, whether showing romantic films at Fulham Palace or Raging Bull and Fight Club at Victorian boxing venue York Hall. Film alfresco: the best pop-up cinemas 2012-08-29T15:44:47Z

"It's a testament to the change in fortunes of Victorian pictures over the last century that these things could have been acquired very cheaply indeed in the 30s, 40s and 50s," said Brown. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

The buildings are Victorian, but the most recent in a line of bellfounders dating back to the 14th century. A-bomb store and monks' kitchen on risk list as threat to heritage grows 2012-10-11T23:01:03Z

A lot of what the Victorians invented is still a mainstay of our world; we've just improved on what they've done. Notes & Queries: What was the funniest TV comedy? 2012-08-01T11:41:48Z

Perhaps Eminent Victorians says something about British nation building? Was the first world war accompanied by a rising literary nationalism? 2013-01-29T17:21:44Z

“I think there’s nothing like a Christmas special that’s set in snowy Victorian England,” says Caroline Skinner, co-executive producer of the series. ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special has scary snowmen — of course 2012-12-22T01:12:55Z

Tapping into Victorian England’s fretfulness about sex, Robinson v. New Books From Maggie Shipstead, Harriet Lane, Mark Haddon 2012-06-27T19:55:30Z

There are not many Victorian portraits of men in formal dress that thrill me as works of art. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

Back then, "Cider House" was a revelation — a vivid epic, steeped in the grand Victorian novel tradition of colorful yarn laced with social concern. Review: A pleasing revisit of 'The Cider House Rules' 2010-06-17T22:48:00Z

The message is feminist, but the vibe is Victorian, specifically Pre-Raphaelite. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

He devoted most of his time, however, to lovingly restoring and furnishing the family's enormous old Victorian house. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z

Constance, he discovers, is on the run from Ravenswood, the shabby, turreted Victorian house where she grew up, and from the tyrannical father who still inhabits its peeling, rattling rooms. Constance by Patrick McGrath – review 2013-05-18T12:59:01Z

That’s a particular problem with “Jonathan Strange,” because the charm of Ms. Clarke’s book was primarily about the embroidery — the clever hodgepodge of Gothic, Regency and Victorian writing styles and devices. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

It's also kind of at odds, I feel, this spiciness with our contemporary ideas about both word nerds and Victorians. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

It is not necessarily rare for actors — male actors, that is — to take on the role of Wilde’s arch parody of a paragon of high Victorian propriety. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

I mean, yes, it has that; but on the whole, the intent of “Carnival Row” is to sink us into a world that looks like Victorian London but isn’t. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike the imported ceramics that sparked “Chinamania” in Victorian Britain, the work in this show is suspicious of beauty. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Three sisters living in a spooky Victorian house, discovering their supernatural powers, battling to protect the human world from demons: Much about CW’s reboot of “Charmed” will seem familiar to anyone who watched the original. The Witches of ‘Charmed’ Are Out to Slay Demons. And the Patriarchy. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Barrett, one of the best-known poets of the Victorian era, suffered from chronic illness and was in her late 30s when Browning first wrote her in 1845 to tell her he admired her work. Browning, Barrett letters: Devotion goes digital 2012-02-14T14:22:31Z

The move to Kirkcaldy won't lessen the intimate atmosphere of a piece that feels as if it's stepped straight out of the Victorian age, and which conjures the ghosts of Christmas past. This week's new theatre 2012-12-01T00:06:18Z

Victorians, anyway, would have found it utterly surreal and grotesque: an inversion of reality, a trip behind the looking glass. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z

Together, Dash and Jafa created colorful, lasting images of black people who wear Victorian dress and commune on beaches and in forests. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Alongside disciplined exaltation, there is an elegiac edge to this writing, like the black border on Victorian letters of condolence. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z

They returned to London where they and their three daughters, Michele, Carol and Ruth, lived a sociable family life in a beautiful early Victorian house overlooking Clapham Common. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z

So goes the story behind the British brand Dr Jackson’s, which launched a few years ago but packages products in amber apothecary bottles that look straight out of a Victorian lithograph. Is your persimmon soap infused with geisha wisdom? The precious world of artisanal beauty. 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Before my Aunt Cathy died of stomach cancer on New Year's Day at only 34, she'd invite me to her attic where we'd spend long afternoons in the company of her Victorian doll collection. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Another great place is The Way We Wore, where I found some great Victorian cotton dresses for either vacationing in the country or the beach. Where to Go to Shop in 2012 2012-01-06T17:03:57Z

This saucy troupe comes at us in the guise of Victorian music hall performers, which licenses an agreeable razzmatazzy style to the evening’s entertainment. Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

It was, however, Francis King in the Sunday Telegraph who pithily summarised what many of us felt, when he described the show as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness". Twenty-five years on, they ask me if I was wrong about Les Mis?rables ... 2010-09-21T11:48:00Z

Victorians braided their loved ones’ hair into rings and lockets, and Iman’s perfume is, in a sense, a Victorian mourning gesture. Getting Personal With Iman 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

It has the feel of something from the 19th century, like the Victorian novels devoured by one of its characters, the scholarly Noa. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The idea for national portrait galleries stemmed from a Victorian notion of self-improvement: the paintings of the great and the good, displayed for the edification of the general populace. Art: New Beacon of Scotland's Identity 2011-12-17T08:00:10Z

Her new book, “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady,” has a less sensational subject, but one on which feelings tend to run just as high: divorce. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

The bucolic island is distinguished by its chalky white cliffs and Victorian cottages, and being there is “like going back in time,” said Martin Hall, Wet Leg’s manager. Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

On Staten Island new facsimiles of a Prohibition-era diner and a gas station frequented by fictional criminals have been on view for months amid colonial and Victorian buildings at Historic Richmond Town. Antiques: Gangsters, Outlaws and Artifacts of Their Crime Sprees 2012-09-13T21:02:45Z

It is set in Victorian times and she is about to drown herself when she is saved by smugglers. Smuggler's Kiss by Mary Louise Jensen- review 2013-05-18T08:00:00Z

Photograph: Graham Turner Ragged schools were set up to provide free education for poor inner-city children in the Victorian era. East London's top five culture highlights 2012-07-27T21:44:01Z

The sole set for this offbeat Public Theater musical is part New York artist’s studio, part restored Midwestern Victorian home. On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z

As the mistress of Matthew Smucker's expansive Victorian parlor, Johnson is fetchingly funny, but hasn't found a complete through-line to Catherine's awakening. ACT's 'In the Next Room' is a romp offering more than good vibes 2011-08-05T22:04:06Z

Byrne recalls his mother, a reciter of poetry and old Victorian songs, a lover of language, a dispenser of the Irish folk wisdom known in Gaelic as “Seanfhocail,” a woman consumed by housework and child-rearing. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Describing a delicate Victorian writing desk gifted by a friend, she imbues the object with a strong sense of her intellectual life and credibility as a writer. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Yet his work was also part of the stream of history, not just his Scottish heritage and his obsession with the dark side of Victorian England. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z

The murder, too, looks forward and back, on one side Gilchrist, native-born and Victorian; on the other Slater, the epitome of the new century’s ostracized wanderer. When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Exonerated a Convicted Murderer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

And total cool — heading home to that third floor of a Victorian house in a beat-up white Mustang. For female journalists, Mary Tyler Moore showed us the life we wanted 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

The exhibition also devotes a sizeable chunk of space to Victorian London - dubbed by Werner the "third character" in the books after Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson. London show holds up magnifying glass to Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a grand Victorian house in the Fillmore neighborhood, where Jimmie grew up and which his family was forced to move away from, sometime in the nineteen-nineties. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

“If, my fellow trouser-wearers, you should marry Miss Girl of Tomorrow,” Marston told readers of True, “Accept your Girl of Tomorrow’s frivolity, her inconsequence, and her refusal to freeze ebullient femininity into Victorian repression.” Why Marvel’s Female Superheroes Look Like Porn Stars 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Among those who were chagrined by Holyoake’s approach would be the small but growing band of Victorian infidels for whom he was a hero and leader. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

On a handsome set, by Erhard Rom, that places Victorian furniture within a majestic, neo-Classical hall, Dona D. Vaughn has staged a production that emphasizes, perhaps a bit too heavily, naturalism over abstraction. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z

Lady Gaga, nominated for best pop vocal album for “Joanne” showed up in a dramatic, Goth-inspired midnight black gown with a high Victorian collar and sparkling lace. On red carpet, Grammys stars don white roses in solidarity with women 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

“They do so in foreign films, but in Anglo-Saxon pictures they rarely do. And it seems to me so phony and ridiculous. . . . Why should we subscribe to basically Victorian ideas about morality?” James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

There were essays that incited outrage for the life styles they described, like the one about pretending to live in the Victorian era, or Cat Marnell’s oeuvre. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Her inspirations for the set included Federalist architecture; White House interiors; the Victorian looks of the rock band Panic at the Disco, the diviest bars in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and American pop culture. Inside Old Hickory?s Curio Cabinet 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z

The realisation of this dawned in the Victorian age, when Roger Fenton photographed the aftermath of the Light Brigade's cavalry charge against artillery in The Valley of the Shadow of Death. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z

By selecting an image with a signifying icon of cooled romanticism, rooted in the industrial, Victorian age, Saville essentially flattens and incorporates the historicised past into the futuristic, post-industrial Manchester of New Order. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z

The window where men restrained their crying was brief, and relatively recent, a Victorian overcorrection to the sentimentality associated with Romanticism. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Hastings pier in East Sussex – wrecked by fire in 2010 – is to be restored to its former Grade II-listed, Victorian glory after being awarded a £11.4m grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Hastings pier gets £11.4m lottery grant 2012-11-19T15:32:52Z

Because really, deep down at the core, this show is a big Victorian romance novel. ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z

That she is a Victorian woman and also a reporter provide opportunities for examination of what that means both in that time period and today. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

Dylan O’Hara, a spokesperson for the Victorian sex worker peer group Vixen Collective, says workers were required to register on this list to be eligible for jobkeeper. ‘The sex industry is not pandemic-proof’: workers in Australia faced with impossible choices 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

Much the same can be said of those children in the Victorian era who were born with some version of mental inadequacy. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z

Her Victorian home is a case in point. Setting the scene: a home with a dramatic flourish 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Before that came a range of looks in the experimental collection he calls “Victorian Matrix.” Christian Siriano’s latest show part matrix, bygone times 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Waters does meticulous research to create a very authentic and vivid world, as if I'm travelling back in time to the Victorian era. On my radar: Park Chan-wook 2013-02-24T00:05:33Z

Had this series of events unfolded in, say, a Victorian novel or a Godard film, it would have already been analyzed by generations of scholars. Critic?s Notebook: ?Jersey Shore? Has Its Day at University of Chicago 2011-10-30T22:32:05Z

This Victorian Christmas game, popular on Christmas Eve, involved putting fruit on a plate, dousing it in alcohol, setting it on fire, and then trying to pick out the goodies without injuring yourself. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

“People in the Jackson area, they want a moving Victorian postcard,” says the artistic director, Francine Reynolds. On eight-stop ‘Christmas Carol’ tour, varied takes on Ebenezer Scrooge 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

But Victorian periodicals and newspapers show that alongside dressing in costumes, enjoying themed cuisine and telling ghost stories, historical Halloween food traditions were often centered on love. Halloween foods from history reveal the holiday’s surprising romantic side — and you can try them yo 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

A giant Victorian lighthouse lens that once illuminated the Firth of Forth. National Museum of Scotland: suspend your disbelief 2011-07-26T20:31:01Z

These days, when our insane gun laws permit horrific mass shootings, the notorious murder cases of the Victorian era can sometimes seem almost cozy. Review | A true-crime columnist turns his attention to Victorian-era serial killer Thomas Neill Cream 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

No, Sir D is just filling Bill in a bit on species connection, which is what preoccupied the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero; Endeavour: TV review 2013-04-22T06:00:20Z

In Victorian times, the ascent, like so many other things, was formalised. Shipton and Tilman by Jim Perrin – review 2013-03-27T11:00:01Z

Now I’m more into the psychedelic Victorian vibe.” Young Photographer Breaks the Rules, Finds Success 2010-07-30T23:50:00Z

The casting decisions were intended to reflect the diversity of Victorian London. 'It's very modern': Armando Iannucci rips up rules with Dickens adaption 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The movies’ Annabelle is an elaborate, enormous Victorian creature, about the size of a four-year-old, with gaping eyes, blood-red lips and, later, cracks in the skin. Review: Annabelle Conjures Up a Devil Doll 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The first Arts and Crafts movement, in England, challenged the taste of the Victorian era. A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial 2014-02-27T23:29:47Z

I read two articles in a scholarly feminist journal that argued about the meaning of the Victorian corset. F.I.T. Museum Director Brings Critical Eye to Clothing 2012-02-10T11:08:01Z

The materials were hanging clay tiles, a bit of half-timbering, soft, old brick and harsh Victorian brick, and an ugly, grey cement render. More than a home 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

It’s a charming concept, especially since, “in the Victorian era, sometimes women didn’t even get their own names on their gravestone,” Rhoads said. This woman bakes recipes she finds on gravestone epitaphs: ‘They’re to die for’ 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

On a tidy street in a resurgent New England mill town, where the trimmed bushes look like green thimbles mounted in mulch, Melvin’s large Victorian house sticks out. Is it normal to hoard? 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z

Shiv Shanti Bhuvan is one in the line of 1930s Art Deco apartment blocks that front the green of the Oval Maidan, looking across it to the Victorian spires of the University and High Court. Discovering Mumbai’s Art Deco Treasures 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Victorian pink lady on the northern part of the boardwalk oozes romance. Mid-Atlantic beach getaway itineraries

The act of eating ice cream prepared from a Georgian or Victorian recipe therefore connects today's visitors to a long tradition of enjoying ices recreationally. The strange history of ice cream flavors, from brown bread to Parmesan and paté 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

While her husband ran the store, Ms. Howorth attended to the social side of the operation, opening their Victorian home to any writer who drifted into town and presiding over a nonstop literary salon. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Museum of London's current exhibition, London Street Photography, traces the evolution of street photography in the capital from the late Victorian era to the present day. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z

The Victorian era was notorious for sexual prudery. Weapons of crass construction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But Woodman’s borderline kitschy style, a heated mix of Victorian gothic, Surrealism and 19th-century spirit photography, was a throwback. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z

The original South London Gallery, completed in 1891, is a work of late Victorian cultural philanthropy. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

As in the Victorian era, there would be unknowns: Political upheavals and terrorist activity are realities in Egypt. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The resonance is almost high Victorian; magnificent when it's juxtaposed with the rest of her compressed, stylish reserve. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z

The trust is based in a large Victorian house that once accommodated the governor of Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. In pictures: Prisoners' art on show 2014-05-09T06:57:49Z

My personal favorite is the utterly useless Sebright, developed in the Victorian era before the Internet was invented, when chickens were a major form of entertainment. Books can help with urban chicken farming 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

BBC camera crews recorded her labours for Victorian Pharmacy, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm; TV tie-in hardbacks followed. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

Cars have been banned from the 3.8-square-mile Victorian vacation destination since 1898, and horses sub for engines, pulling everything from private carriages to garbage wagons. The Long and Shore of It: The Country’s Most Intriguing Islands 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The supposedly canny Scots of the Victorian era squandered their success, not as families or individuals of course, but as a nation. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z

The city’s historic center, which fans out around twin lawns planted with towering elms, maintains an old New England character, with neo-Gothic towers, well-aged dive bars and working-class neighborhoods of faded but elegant Victorian houses. 36 Hours in New Haven, Conn. 2012-10-27T00:00:22Z

But the Victorian era the movement makes loving reference to was not a wonderful time to be a consumer. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

His wife Constance, older than DeMille and very much a Victorian lady, preferred not to deal with the snake-riddled outdoors and a ranch that lacked electricity and creature comforts. Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for Your Booze Stash 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Condemned by class and education to be part of the faceless grind of Victorian London – unexceptional, unrecognised and unremarked upon – Charles is determined to be a somebody. This week's new theatre 2011-03-05T00:07:36Z

Meanwhile funding for theatre, film, music and other arts projects is to return to the Victorian notion of finding patrons, drawn from the people who have their own agendas. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z

She applauded the Victorians’ “sociology of virtue,” which, she said, called for empathy toward the suffering but also moral sanctions. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Off parade, the McQueen man wore sleek suits, occasionally slashed open at the shoulders, and coats in herringbone or pinstripe, suggesting a modern update on the ponderous Victorian gentleman. Special Report: Fashion: Illuminating Shades of Gray 2011-01-19T19:14:24Z

Just in time for the warmer weather, London’s Corinthia Hotel tapped AD100 design firm David Collins Studio to create a garden lounge within its charming Victorian property. David Collins Studio Designs Terrace at London’s Corinthia Hotel 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Is there any redemption possible for this brilliant Victorian misanthrope? Review: Holmes lore wrapped up neatly in Taproot production 2010-12-02T21:36:00Z

Here, on a side street in a once dicey area now chockablock with rambling renovated Victorians, cool retail shops and restaurants, Evan Kinori, 32, operates a one-man clothing label. Want to Make It Big in Fashion? Think Small 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

There could be no mistaking the rendezvous: the Grace Gates were easily the most splendid entrance to Lord's, remodelled in the previous decade to honour the memory of the legendary Victorian cricketer. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z

Chasing after hard-boiled eggs on a grand public lawn is a peculiar D.C. tradition created by children of the Reconstruction and Victorian eras. White House Easter Egg Roll to return for first time in two years 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

This royal family, in vaguely Victorian dress, lives in a run-down mansion, which rotates onstage to reveal stuffy rooms, forbidding exteriors and marbled arcades. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z

Like some of the prints, there’s something a bit too winsome about the piece — it brings to mind a Victorian dollhouse — until you notice little dirigibles floating, as dark as sharks, near the tower’s top. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Lower East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Time called this new "sex-affirming culture" the "second sexual revolution" – the first having occurred in the 1920s, "when flaming youth buried the Victorian era and anointed itself as the Jazz Age". Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

Or a bulbous glass and steel Victorian folly around the corner? A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Estimates are mostly a few hundred dollars each for portraits of sick and dying patients, dental mold sets, crutches and doctors’ Victorian saddlebags with tiny compartments for protecting glass vials. Antiques: Robert Megna?s Medical Device Collection Goes to Auction 2011-08-25T22:28:50Z

He grunts and growls with occasional Chewbacca whinnies; he huffs like a mill owner, or like one of those steam engines of the Victorian age whose encroaching modernity makes Turner so uncomfortable. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The setting is Victorian England, and Charles Lenox — the son of an earl — declares he wants to be a private detective, London’s first. Review | ‘The Woman in the Water’: An elegant mystery novel set in Victorian England 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Unlike the Victorians, we do not fear that our coffee is fake so much as that our entire pattern of eating may be bad for us, in ways that we can’t fully identify. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The late Victorians, tired of sensationalism, wrote about her "magic", and needed her to reinvest "the world with wonder". What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

It is now popular with tourists interested in more than just Victorian tragedies about fallen women and men who can’t rise above their station. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

She takes us inside a Victorian morgue, backstage at performances of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and down dark alleyways with the unofficial Watchmen whose inadequacy advertised the need for an organized police force. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

Mine was a two story Victorian with a steep roof and a fat gothic tower, with lacy white gingerbread trim that adorned the eaves. I finally own a home – and can relax my 'transient immigrant' aloofness 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

For the Victorian theme, the time frame's a little off — "P&P" predates the Victorian era. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z

For the Epix limited series, it’s the “rise of the great Victorian era of manufacturing and money and … the expansion of London,” he said. ‘Downton Abbey’ creator’s new TV show is painfully accurate 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

This week's poem, "The Two Deserts", is by a writer I consider to be among the great Victorian poets, equal to Tennyson in musicality and to the Brownings in intellect and humanity. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z

Hence, Chastain shrieking in a gorgeous Victorian gown while wielding a meat cleaver. Rise of female monsters shows horror movies are not afraid of big, bad women 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The pictures in her Touchstone Gallery show suggest the pre-Raphaelites, eminent Victorians who were also keen on looking back. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

He described how the Victorian veteran manoeuvred him towards the bed and asked if he minded a friend joining them. Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z

Sunday 23 December I chose a ghost story partly because I thought no one else would; and also because the Victorians wrote the best stories and MR James the best of all. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

For those less fascinated by the Victorians, Palma includes plenty of derring-do, although mercifully less gore than figured in “The Map of the Sky.” ‘The Map of Chaos,’ by Felix J. Palma 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s the question that drives the evening and, just as crucially, the paranoia of the king in a court decked out becomingly by costume designer Sarah Cubbage in Victorian bowler hats and petticoats. Review | You won’t find Westeros on Folger’s stage. But you will find a game of thrones. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

She loved the bright color palette of Jacques Demy's "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and couldn't get enough of the lush Victorian interiors of Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy." Moment of Friday: Why Mimi Pond loves Mike Leigh's ugly '70s couch 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The exhibition also includes a recreation of her current sitting room, with the "very grand chaise longue where every morning I recline like a Victorian invalid and write by hand". Author Wilson reveals her roots 2011-07-20T01:58:43Z

Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. Royals celebrate Dickens' legacy 2012-02-07T15:37:43Z

When you think of sex toys, you may not automatically think of the Victorian era. Victorian-era ivory sex toy generates excitement at Irish auction 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The portrait, by one of the superstars of Victorian art, William Powell Frith, will be conspicuously missing from the exhibition Dickens and the Artists, which opens at Watts Gallery near Guildford, Surrey, on Tuesday. Where is Kate Nickleby? 2012-06-18T12:21:26Z

Difficult, in the circumstances, to see how he could be described as anything other than "centrally Victorian". Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z

Kept from falling into the murky water by a haphazard arrangement of what could well be rusty old Victorian plumbing, I have my doubts about the pier's ability to withstand the fury of Saxon unleashed. Saxon: 'Metal fans are the most loyal in the world' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-16T12:54:39Z

It’s a strong aphrodisiac and a hallucinogen: Victorian ladies would put a little of its pollen in their tea and trip happily away. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

I also strolled by the Tea House Theater, a Victorian public house with an array of loose-leaf teas. London, South of the River (Before ‘Brexit’) 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

In U.S. history, we see the origins of this particular cultural practice during the Victorian era. Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

In April 2015, Harper entered pages she’d written over the past six months into the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. As a Reporter, She Wrote About Business. As a Novelist, She Writes About Murder. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

His fanciful mural, intended to brighten the walls of the chow hall, teems with mansard roofs, neon signs, Victorian houses and other details inspired by the Japanese-born painter he admires, Hiro Yamagata. No License Plates Here: Using Art to Transcend Prison Walls 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Victorian charm meets industrial chic at this relaxed neighborhood bar in the lively Friedrichshain district. Drinking in Berlin’s traditional, yet iconoclastic, cocktail-bar scene 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

I would look for covered bridges on the road, round barns built by utopian Quakers and Victorian houses. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

A team of nearly 80 scholars wrote the 85 alphabetical entries, from arsenic-laced wallpaper that poisoned Victorian families to exploding zeppelins. Reading Between the Design Lines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Christmas pantomimes are still enormously popular in England, but in Victorian times a different sort of comic play was the toast of the Christmas season: St. George and the Dragon. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

I went back and read a lot of Dickens, a lot of Thackeray; I read Austen, even though she's not Victorian era, and I had a lot of fun with that. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

In his new biography, “Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian,” James Grant follows this pattern, burnishing his subject’s reputation but offering a somewhat limited appraisal of Bagehot’s achievements. The ‘Greatest Victorian’ Is Largely Forgotten. His Biographer Wants to Change That. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

In the early days of cinema, when audiences had grown tired of seeing shots of everyday life, film-makers began looting the theatre, mythology, poetry, opera and Victorian melodrama for their subject matter. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z

Shepherd is good on Victorian London, with its fogs and winds and lives lived, particularly by women, on the verge of desperation. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z

A straggly, hand-puppet beast – a one-time mighty cucumber-lifter – sits dolefully in a rocking chair in his cosy cardboard box, indulging in a death scene as protracted as a Victorian melodrama. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

One of the most spectacular tombs in the royal warren belonged to Seti I; it was known to Victorians as “Belzoni’s tomb.” A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Madray now lives with three roommates in a Victorian apartment in the Mission. Bay Area Millennials are Flocking to Communes 2013-12-12T00:53:10Z

Antique cigarette cases are displayed on the Sevigny table, while tiny jewel boxes and silver Victorian birds colonize other surfaces. James Taffin de Givenchy's Colorful New Showroom 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Port Townsend Victorian Heritage Festival: Uptown walking tours, 2 p.m., pub crawl, 7-10 p.m. History, herons and heritage | Weekend Preview 2014-03-19T20:09:21Z

It’s a Victorian house and the wooden window frames are easy to prise open. Experience: a burglar made me think I was losing my mind 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

She suggested that you carefully measure to see whether the replacement shade for her company’s Victorian model would work for you. How to find a replacement globe for an old lamppost 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

"I wanted something that felt romantic yet wild," says Kemble, whose inspirations included Dominican vernacular styles and the Victorian family compound where she grew up in Palm Beach, Florida. Celerie Kemble's Dominican Republic Retreat Is A Study In Tropical Whimsy 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The producer emailed me, asking me a trivial question about the Victorian era which I interpreted as a feeler to test whether I might get involved in some capacity. The Crimson Petal and the White: Watching my novel reborn on TV 2011-04-06T14:13:06Z

In “One Hot Summer,” the historian Rosemary Ashton threads these stories together, providing a vivid snapshot of Victorian life and culture. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Season With Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Crawford perks up the story halfway through with the arrival of his smart, indulgent girlfriend, whom a Victorian would call “plucky.” A memoir of growing up on the farm that advised the White House’s Kitchen Garden

Alternating between two stories of covert gay affairs, one in Victorian England and one in contemporary Washington, Anthony explores the tension between public and private life, particularly where ambition is involved. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

In a musical era defined by post-punk's minimalism and deconstructionism, a sprawling concept album based on a Victorian novel about a Martian invasion of Earth appeared a gargantuan folly. The War of the Worlds – review 2012-12-16T18:00:04Z

After the misery of servitude, the exhibition follows the path to glory, the years when Charlotte leapt immediately to the front rank of Victorian fiction with “Jane Eyre.” She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Growing up in a small town in Wales, Diamandis said she never demonstrated any aptitude for music, except for singing Oasis’s “Wonderwall” once when she was 9 “by the fireplace like a little Victorian child.” Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s part of the new Seattle Art Museum exhibition “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement.” ‘Victorian Radicals’ SAM exhibition 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Iceland itself became a kind of yardstick against which Morris measured the follies and iniquities of Victorian Britain. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

What did the Victorians ever do for us, eh? How to make the perfect lemon curd 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

The novel’s setting of Victorian London is transplanted to Korea of the 1930s. The 50 best US films of 2016: No 9 – The Handmaiden 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Using photographs and postcards, the display illustrates the mysterious atmosphere of Victorian London described in the Holmes canon of more than 50 short stories and four short novels. In London, a Study in Sherlock 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Nearby off-property attractions include the Greene County African American Museum in downtown Madison – a small town with Antebellum and Victorian homes plus tennis at Reynolds Lake Oconee. Last-minute road trips to take in the South over Labor Day weekend 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Now, it has become increasingly clear that their gatherings in a three-story Victorian house at 31 Inman Street in Cambridge, Mass., represented a flash of literary lightning. The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

The aspidistra is remembered as a foolproof potted plant for the gloomiest Victorian parlor, but Avent has brought aspidistras out into the garden as scientists have introduced them to the West. This collector-grower built an Eden of rare plants. Now he tackles the challenge to preserve it. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Slopen, a young fogy, explains this novel’s sensibility, somewhat, by stating that his father was technically a Victorian. Books of The Times: Marcel Theroux’s Eccentric ‘Strange Bodies’ 2014-02-13T20:41:07Z

Popular misconception has it that Britain sank into moral rectitude in the Victorian era, and didn't emerge into the permissive light until 1963. Rude Britannia 2010-06-15T07:00:00Z

In East Dulwich, there is more charm, with a Saturday market on North Cross Road, Edwardian rowhouses and a slightly spooky brick Victorian hospital, still in use. London, South of the River (Before ‘Brexit’) 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

In a style you might call Victorian Gothic Surrealism, they create worlds that time seems to have left behind, where dust and shadows pile up over forgotten secrets that are revealed only in tantalizing glimpses. The Week Ahead: Aug. 5 — Aug. 11 2012-08-03T18:25:27Z

It takes the Piscataqua River past Badger’s Island, around New Castle Island, past three former military forts whose roots go back to the Revolution, finally skirting the Victorian resort Wentworth-by-the-Sea. 36 Hours in Portsmouth, N.H. 2013-08-01T11:49:43Z

The hobby had an arcane, almost Victorian dustiness to it, akin to collecting stamps or coins. How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Owen surely inhabits the breadth and panorama of the Victorian tale, but her rush for more stories, more characters, diffuses the momentum of any central storyline or theme. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots

Purple might be used for a cheerful pantomime, the brand’s website suggests, whereas a Victorian melodrama might call for a pale green. How to Use Zoom Like a Theater or Film Professional 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Victorian tea and tour, light luncheon, seatings at 12:30 and 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Orchidelirium” harks back to the era when orchid mania swept Victorian England with such intensity that it required a new word to describe it. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

With its original Victorian homes maintained in beautiful condition, Cape May is a like a step back in time. A beachgoer’s guide to the southernmost South Jersey Shore 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

And as with other points of “progress” in the Victorian Era — like the Reform Bill, which aimed to expand the electorate — it was hotly debated, both in fact and in fiction. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 9: Dombey and Son 2012-01-28T19:52:46Z

We built our network in the Victorian era, before cars were invented. Could train fare rises be halted by 'standing only' carriages? 2012-08-20T13:41:03Z

I would rather this were a show about a female Victorian constable sticking it to her bosses by solving crimes on her own. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

But does Ms. Burton have any of that Stygian gloom that the late Mr. McQueen found in the Victorian era for his menswear shows? Special Report: Fashion: Rockin' Back the Clock 2011-06-21T10:37:23Z

Ms. Whittingham’s study showcases her own collection of Victorian fern-pattern antiques, including greeting cards, trinket boxes and a cast-iron fire grate. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z

Their finds, ranging from Victorian boots to Roman rings, are reported to experts under the portable antiquities scheme. Medieval roof finial found beside Thames 2010-08-03T11:30:00Z

“I’m usually thinking of Victorian England for my shoes so it was nice to be a little more festive and colorful.” | Tabitha Simmons Finds Romance in the Andes 2013-08-20T13:00:35Z

FRI-SUN Victorian village with 560 stores including jewelry, art, tools, ornaments, home décor, toys, food vendors, wine garden, entertainment, Santa visits, carousel, horse-drawn carriage rides, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-12-04T23:56:57Z

When you see these actual Victorian pictures of dead relatives posing in a group photograph, they're extraordinary. "Miss Scarlet & the Duke" creator on the reality of Victorian women & hopes for the show's future 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

“If I see anything in old leather, I buy it. I love the history and character of each piece, and wanted to find a way to reuse them. Some date back to Victorian times.” 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

It is an eerie work, like looking into a Victorian conservatory full of exotic fruits on the brink of decay. The dark side of the fruit: why still life began to rot in the 19th century 2012-02-13T14:25:21Z

And in the Victorian period, some publishers used binding cloth dyed with colors like Scheele’s green, an industrially produced hue also containing arsenic. For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

His portraiture was part of a ruse to abuse young girls, making them dress in Victorian clothing before removing it and committing indecent acts. Artist convicted for child sex 2013-04-02T19:16:04Z

The building – essentially 1960 brutalist welded on to late Victorian – had been transformed so successfully that the Art Fund judges said it was "building a lasting legacy". Ulster Museum takes top arts prize 2010-06-30T18:35:00Z

Photograph: Reeves/Getty Images The biggest thing that Deborah Cohen achieves in this book of marvels is to dislodge, once and for all, the whiskery idea that the Victorians were a generation of secret keepers. Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-12T10:31:01Z

Fingersmith, she points out, is excessive too, with its roots in “those Victorian novels about murder and madness and mayhem”. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

The cloudy days of Victorian art are pregnant with revolutionary storms. Why is it raining in 19th-century art? 2010-06-22T11:31:00Z

They’re Victorian gentlemen, but they have some work to do in the relationship department. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Step Brothers’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Victorians also indulged in many more unusual Christmas traditions that have largely gone extinct. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Victorians lived in an era "of debates and discussions". Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z

I used to go on kicks where I'd deep dive into Victorian sensation novels, or the Harlem Renaissance. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

Showtime’s campy Victorian Era-set thriller “Penny Dreadful” returns for its third season Sunday. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Penny Dreadful,’ ‘UnReal’ and ‘Election’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Her bond with Mina is broken, and Vanessa makes a harrowing descent into a Victorian asylum – complete with forced ice baths, high-pressure fire hoses and even trepanning. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Vanessa's Sin and Obsession 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Some writers sought to provoke ever more “elevated” feelings in their readers: Victorian sentimentalists wrote tear-inducing scenes, often centered on the death of a child, in an effort to inspire social and political reform. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Ghost stories work better in a Victorian setting. Sherlock Christmas special trailer promises Victorian-era chills 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Projects include a Victorian home, a 1920s bungalow and a farmhouse. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘I’m Sorry’ and ‘Funeral Directors: Dead Good Job’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

In a Victorian house in North London on a recent afternoon, Frank Auerbach, one of Britain’s foremost painters, was working in his spartan, paint-spattered studio with a vigor belying his 91 years. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s been said that from a window in the Selfridges basement you could see a perfectly preserved Victorian high street. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z

It’s a film that romps from the ballrooms of Victorian London to the seafront at Margate, the source of our hero’s inspiration. The films to watch in autumn 2014: from Gone Girl to Mr Turner 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Time off was the flip side of the punishing Victorian work ethic, an earthly reward for laborious sacrifice. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

I like books that make me do both, which is one reason I adore Victorian fiction. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

Ms. Erdman remembered when an actress in Ferenc Molnar’s farce “The Guardsman” sat on a Victorian settee a little too dramatically at the Berkshire Theater Festival a few years ago. Theater Props Masters Gather at the Public Theater 2012-09-11T00:26:08Z

Where To Stay & What To See San Francisco No city in America offers unique Victorian charm, dramatic mountain and sea views and pioneering architecture. Forbes Guide To Worldwide Travel: Early Summer 2010-05-12T20:00:00Z

The occasion for such an audacious transformation is a boisterous revival of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” over which Mr. Suchet reigns in the role of that grand Victorian dragon, Lady Bracknell. London Theater Journal: En Travesti, Both Sides Now 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

She does, sort of, by means of an English class recitation of “Spring and Fall,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a stirring and enigmatic Victorian poem addressed to a young girl of that name. | 'Margaret': ?Margaret,? Directed by Kenneth Lonergan - Review 2011-09-29T23:25:33Z

This is how little Victorian rich girls practiced their gender roles. Art to See This Fall 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

It's an amazing blend of all of them set in Victorian times. 'The Map of the Sky': conjuring world's end in the name of true love 2012-10-10T22:09:05Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod When I first read about the Road Hill House murder, in a Victorian true-crime anthology in the London Library, I knew at once that I wanted to write about it. Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z

The concept of the designer is to encase the hair of loved ones, as was done in the Victorian era, but in a heart-shaped in transparent resin rather than in a locket or brooch. Special Report: Fashion: Hair Jewelry from Delfina Delettrez 2011-09-29T17:14:37Z

Britain is saddled with an enormous legacy of Victorian art. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z

For the last week and until 21 August, the slightly dowdy Derbyshire spa town will be ringing to the sounds of Victorian light . Gilbert and Sullivan make their mark on Buxton 2010-08-09T17:21:00Z

Sassoon, whose life stretched from the late Victorian era into the 1960s, is primarily remembered as one of the War Poets. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Museum of London is moving to another nearby site, a set of vacant Victorian market buildings. New York Architects Chosen for Major New London Concert Hall 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is a dark, almost Victorian, subtext to the narrative of moral disapproval that condemned Miller for having about 1% of the fun that young male actors are allowed to enjoy with impunity. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The steps on our Victorian staircases were too small. London's Cock Tavern may be no more ? but you can't kill the fringe 2011-04-12T14:31:04Z

Architizer tours Hitchcock's greatest architectural feats, from the neighborhood he built for Rear Window to the magnificent Victorian mansions that serve as ominous plot tools. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z

Working and travelling were especially important to Kirk, and she directed much of her ire at the absurdities of constrictive Victorian clothing. How to Pitch a Magazine (in 1888) 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z