Victorian

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The wider family, whose aristocratic ancestors can be traced to Norman times, had members belonging to various Christian denominations and at least one who was Jewish during Victorian times.

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For some, that description by Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans and the images of the collapse 12 years ago came to embody Britain's crumbling Victorian railways.

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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.

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

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