Victorian
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In 1984, they bought a 4,000-square-foot Greenwich condominium in a 7-unit Victorian property in town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The oldest house in the collection dates back to 1840 and displays a typical home of a wealthy family in the early Victorian period.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The exercise and fresh air work their plain Victorian magic; soon she is ravenous for the porridge waiting at Misselthwaite Manor.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Late Victorian, the house is, a family house, built for a large rich family.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Ms Maiklem has written four books about mudlarking, which was historically a trade of poor Victorians and is now a popular hobby involving unearthing historical artefacts from the silt on river banks.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
She and her colleagues discovered that the transformation of our pets championed by the Victorians through selective breeding actually started more than 10,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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
