Victorians

It never fails when I print something about the Victorian style -- whether it be a costume or a piece of lace or a tea cup or a house, somebody jumps on here, shrieking and casting dust into the air about how horrible the Victorians were and how much better off we are today.

Learning From Victorian Families 2007

It is not known whether his comments recognised the delicious irony that his book, called The Victorians, is a companion to his latest TV series.

OPEN THREAD 2009

Surely the Victorians were the greatest of Britons article

Surely the Victorians were the greatest of Britons (article) Hermes 2009

They paint the past in a primitive light, and fail to point out that the Victorians were actually the modern inventors of the things that we enjoy today.

Learning From Victorian Families 2007

Victorian Paintings: Surely the Victorians were the greatest of Britons article

Surely the Victorians were the greatest of Britons (article) Hermes 2009

That our great grandmothers and great great grandmothers and the pioneers and the Victorians were all really in the dark, wrong, misguided, and stupid?

Watch Out For Bad Language 2006

That our great grandmothers and great great grandmothers and the pioneers and the Victorians were all really in the dark, wrong, misguided, and stupid?

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

This is a more dangerous symptom than the vigorous denunciations of parliament the Victorians were accustomed to.

Our Parliament, Its Organization and Work 1955

It is absurd to call the Victorians old-fashioned or out of date; they were as intensely modern as we, only their modernity is naturally not ours.

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

The Victorians were the first people to experience that, and I think it made them crazy in new ways.

Boing Boing Paris Match 2011