Victorian
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She sold the adorable Victorian bungalow 13 years later for $950,000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Or the gallant, pragmatic 8-year-old street hawker selling watercress in Victorian London: “All my money I earns I puts in a club and draws it out to buy clothes with.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Over the next year, Cain, Reyes and Baker grew closer as fellow members of the Monrovia Historic Preservation Group, bonding over their desire to preserve the town’s historic character, especially its Victorian homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But what these Victorian Age composers didn’t realise was that destiny was about to give them a tremendous jolt.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Licence re-examined the chronicle, which survives today in nine manuscript editions, alongside other 11th Century sources, to correct an error he said was popularised by the Victorians.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
Like many educated Victorians, Stanley was dazzled as a child by travelogues and the Arabian Nights tales.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
"It was 2009 ahead of the bushfires where we saw those prevailing conditions and so we are indicating to all Victorians that this is a very serious set of weather conditions."
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The Victorians sparked the modern obsession with engineering “lots of different looking dogs to fit different human wants,” said Dr. Rowena Packer, senior lecturer at the University of London’s Royal Veterinary College.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Victor walks into the building—undisclosed location, of course—with Andrea Donahue, a coworker who doesn’t stop to admire the portraits of smiling Victorians and past presidents on the yellow walls.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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