Victorian

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"I think we've struggled in the west to have honest, sincere, discussions about death. Our western denial of death has been very Victorian," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

They stay in a rambling Victorian house in the Garden District and record in a studio that’s haunted.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

The huge blaze engulfed the B-listed Victorian building next to Glasgow Central Station on Sunday 8 March after starting in a vape shop on Union Street.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It was a thick Victorian novel about an orphan.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart