Victorian

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Fraudsters that use promises of love and companionship to cheat the lonely is a crime as old as Victorian novels.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

In particular, they borrowed from “Lombard Street,” Bagehot’s epigrammatic description of life in Victorian finance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Victorian Cross recipients from other Commonwealth nations have faced criminal charges, but Roberts-Smith is believed to be the first charged with a war crime.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

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.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood