Victorian

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Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Jack thinks he can fit 500 people into the Victorian building, with plenty of space for everyone - but there's a lot to think about.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

John Ruskin, a Victorian art critic, raged at how the division of labor broke down traditional communities and turned people into automatons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Airship captains and Victorian inventors gather Down Under.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

The sentiment is understandable, for Kelvin really was a kind of Victorian superman.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson