It’s easy to romanticize the past, especially the Victorian era. It’s been given so much Hollywood gilding in films such as “The Portrait of a Lady” and “The Age of Innocence,” depicting it as a time ...

Victorian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Winter 2020), pp ...

Opening the door to her mistress's bedchamber, the maid knew she was risking the wrath of Victorian society. Taking her upperclass lover by his hand, she drew him in. On her lady's bed lay a lavish ...

When most people think of the Victorian era, they think about the romantic details you see in the movies: the lavish dresses, the ornate furniture, the elaborate and exacting table manners people were ...