This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

The 19th century, as she says, "was the century of urbanization." Whereas in 1801 "only 20 percent of the population of Great Britain lived in cities," a century later "that figure had risen to nearly ...

After spending a considerable amount of time enjoying roughly five play-throughs in Half-Life 2, I've noticed the European influences on the setting. Specifically distinct similarities with Victorian ...

Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...

All those episodes of “Masterpiece Theater” have left an indelible image of the Victorian era as a time of civility and restraint. People of that time may have been hypocrites, but at least they were ...

For the 16th year, the Victorian Society is calling on the public to nominate Victorian or Edwardian buildings in England and ...

With the addition of the Victorian Tea Room, slated to open soon at the Nelson Davis House at 522 E. Main St., Nacogdoches can add Victorian England to the city's list of historical destinations.

Lust is threatening to tear John Addington’s life apart. It haunts his dreams, governs his thoughts: “Lust, not as quickened heartbeat or lurch into dizzy possibility, but as lagging sickness, a ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...