Victorian

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It was only with time that I understood “Wuthering Heights” for its impact on literature — how its existence during the Victorian era was so subversive.

From Los Angeles Times

The 17-acre island comes with a Victorian stone farmhouse that was inhabited until the 1970s but is now in "need of extensive renovation", according to Carter Jonas estate agents in Bangor.

From BBC

Gwen John lived her life refusing to bow to what was expected of a woman born in the Victorian era.

From BBC

The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.

From Los Angeles Times

“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal