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"Welcome to Nightingale, a portal-popping, realm-hopping survival adventure set in the fashionable Victorian era, except there's magic about."
"One thing about me, I [expletive] love the Victorians."
"The bath, the shower, the lavatory—those things we couldn't live without them; we have the Victorians to thank for those."
"You can't underestimate the effect of the gas cooker; for the Victorians, this was absolutely amazing."
"The arrival of new gas ovens and gas cookers played a part in the Victorians' revolution of the kitchen."
"Whatever the reality of Spring-Heeled Jack was, this Victorian demon has become a part of popular culture forever."
"Britain's medical outlook was transformed under the Victorians. Hospitals became sanitized palaces of healing and treatment."
"The innovation and fearless campaigning of Victorian medical reformers laid the foundations for the National Health Service we owe them a great deal."
"It's easy to forget how common horror movies and scary stories were in the Victorian era."
"I've discovered how Victorian engineering brought the masses to the seaside."
"30 years of Victorian ingenuity gave Brighton the railway, the West Pier, luxurious hotels, and the sewers."
"He perfectly matched up with the ideal image of a Victorian explorer...popular throughout the centuries."
"Queen Victoria ruled for 63 years, remembered as one of the most influential monarchs."
"Queen Victoria's reign left a lasting impact, shaping the Victorian Era and beyond."
"His writings were a window into the life of Victorian London, a medley of biting social commentary and wit."
"Thank you always a pleasure to find these fancy clay pipes, the clay pipe makers back in Victorian times were real artists."
"It's a historical novel set in Victorian London, atmospheric and descriptive."
"I think what we have learned from this process is that the Victorians really knew what they were doing."
"Victorian London was also kind of a nightmare."
"The victorian era was a period of transition where old ways collided with new ways to produce a very interesting time."
"Victorian days: an orgasm was a medical procedure."
"When you look at it through that Victorian lens I always find it almost extra fascinating."
"Without the Victorians, the Britain we know and love would not exist."
"Cleanliness was King in the Victorian era because they were figuring out that germs and poor hygiene cause diseases."
"In the long reign of a single queen, Victorian inventions changed the world."
"The ship canal has been described by historians certainly as if you like the greatest feat of engineering in Victorian Britain."
"When you look at the ship canal now what does it tell you about the Victorians? I think of tenacity, I think of forward planning."
"Beyond that, the bizarre way that all of the characters interact with each other is clearly intended to be a caricature of Victorian norms."
"Evolution doesn't explain beauty. Why do you think a flower is beautiful?"
"Gertrude Bell was one of the most adventurous women from Victorian England."
"Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare like a landscape on the moon. But this science is in truth but a little light in the darkness." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"We often think we're so superior to the Victorians... but have we really changed that much?"
"The eccentricity of her wardrobe highlights Lucy's free spirit allowing the audience to infer that she doesn't abide by the strict sense of propriety that loomed over the Victorian era."
"In the course of one queen's long reign, the Victorians transformed their capital city."
"Highgate Cemetery is chilling enough in pictures let alone in real life, owing to the reinterpretation of horror in Victorian times."
"People today watch Victorian dramas because everything was awesome."
"The achievement in this book as well is unparalleled, the way she manages to create these non-existent Victorian poets out of thin air."
"Not only is this claim clearly ignorant of reality but to create such works of symmetrical accuracy was unquestionably the work of a group of individuals far more advanced than even that of the Victorians."
"Infant mortality rates in Victorian Britain were terrifyingly high."
"Nathaniel Essex was a Victorian era geneticist."
"Sadly, these pieces of glass aren't from the confessor's chapel; they've been found mixed up with a lot of other Victorian rubbish dating to around 1840."
"These brand new networks laid down by the Victorians were fundamental in shaping not just London but the country as a whole."
"The book revolutionized science during the Victorian era."
"Alice the first female lead in children's literature, challenges the upright morals and the stuffy atmosphere of Victorian England, and is a timeless heroine because of that."
"The extraordinary Victorian period of British history has always excited mixed emotions."
"The Victorian era has become one of the most famous and celebrated in history."
"The Victorian era was a period of great industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom."
"Old English Christmas and for the majority of people images of snowy landscapes cheer uping Robins Rosie cheeked children mounds of festive food and a beautifully decorated Christmas tree will all spring effortlessly to mind."
"The major influence on such a view of Christmas belongs distinctly to the Victorian era when the celebrations of the Season took on a whole new character."
"Excellent, AB Marshall stands for Agnes Bera Marshall born In 1855, she was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cooky writer in the Victorian period and was dubbed the queen of IES for her works on ice cream and other frozen desserts."
"This would go on to become one of the most stirring romances of the Victorian era."
"This is a late Victorian piece, probably around the 1880s."
"There's a deliciousness to it. I always thought it was a bit like a kind of Victorian romance."
"Victorian everything - furniture, accessories, decor - I think is really amazing when it's mixed with other interior design styles."
"...it's just amazing uh the Ingenuity of humans and kind of what happened in the Victorian era actually I I've learned that a lot of really cool stuff that we take for granted today got at start in that era of time..."
"If you want something new to read on the fantasy side with a Victorian Vibe and you like the idea of something that kind of is like a Harry Potter or a Lord of the Rings but much darker much murkier, this is such such a good one."
"The Victorian era contains some of the most dazzling and darkest moments of English History."
"Building reached fever pitch during the 1860s and the 1870s. Every self-respecting resort had to have one. At least two major piers were being built each year and constructors were in high demand. Like much of Victorian industry, it was dangerous hard graft."
"The Victorians just loved their taxidermy."
"What did a traditional English Yuletide game of Snapdragon involve during the Victorian era?"
"Well, someone's going to... what did they used to call it in Victorian times? The Little Death, right? That's what they call an orgasm, The Little Death. Someone's going to be having a little death."
"The figure of a woman in a Victorian era dress has been spied gazing from windows at passersby."
"Jana writes her story in a way that brilliantly combines supernatural elements and real-world assumptions of the Victorian era."
"Victorian architecture I feel that something like Tower Bridge is absolutely quintessentially Victorian."
"For centuries, homes at Christmas were decorated simply with greenery like holly and ivy. The Victorians changed all that with brightly colored decorations."
"Gaslighting derives its origins from Hamilton's Victorian era play set in London about a middle-class marriage based on lies and deceit."
"...it was actually quite a happy compatibility for many Victorians when Darwin's theory emerged that, 'Yeah, well, of course, you can believe in God and evolution.'"
"The Talons of Weng-Chiang, absolutely masterpiece."
"Victoria would take the throne and reign over a grand age of invention and Empire."
"Millennials are starting to look at Victorian design again."
"The homes around Goodale Park were built in the popular style of the Victorian era."
"We're going to step back in time through the cobbled streets and alleyways of Victorian Britain."
"Imagine yourself in the streets of 19th century London, Victorian London, imagine yourself there, a labyrinth of narrow winding streets shrouded in a perpetual cloak of fog and soot."
"Nothing in human history, up until the present time, nothing before computers, comes anywhere close to the Victorian era for advances in everything."
"The public park movement had begun in Bradford as early as 1863 with the provision of Peel Park as an antidote to Victorian Bradford's low moral tone."
"It was the Victorians that invented Christmas as we celebrate it today."
"Life in Victorian times is lived on the grand scale if you're ambitious and you like to think big."
"These are Victorians, and they can do the impossible."
"The events that took place in the village of Road during the year 1860 would seem straight out of Victorian detective fiction."
"Taunton is a place that is said to have once forced Queen Victoria to draw the curtains in her train carriage as she passed through."
"The Ottoman Empire went from broken to broken beyond repair during the Victorian era."
"I get my inspiration from Victorian Tea Party."
"Victorians considered themselves to be sensible people, but they lived in very strange times."
"The Victorians invented vibrators."
"The Victorian period was famous for the intense stigmatization of women who were mothers of illegitimate children."
"The Victorian dressmaker... it covers the entire Victorian era."
"I love moons; I know that they did a lot of moon and star motifs back in the Victorian era."
"The Victorian era, very opulent, lots of carved furniture, intricate, exactly, lots of carved picture frames, lots of carved moldings in and outside the house."
"We built things properly back in the Victorian era, not like now where you cut corners just to get things down to a cost."
"The Victorian era was full of weird, not so wonderful, and now often obsolete jobs."
"The removal of filth provided Victorians with gainful employment."
"At the beginning of the Victorian era, there was a great number of female servants in London."
"The Victorian public liked heroes; they needed them. Today we may have film stars and footballers; they had explorers."
"The figure of a Victorian lady has been seen in this room; she's been seen 14 times in the last few years."
"Vintage patience... reminds me of like back in the days, like in Victorian times."
"Nostalgia and Romanticism for the ancient customs of the Highlands would gain huge popularity in the late Victorian age."
"Victorian refers to the fashion and culture of England in the 1830s to 1890s."
"It's my intention to have future shows feature other unsolved murders of the Victorian age."
"We follow what the family would have gone through at the height of Victorian mourning."
"Let's bring back Victorian tear catchers. I would fill these so fast."
"Isabella Bird was a remarkable English lady in Victorian society, and her life is worthy of a story itself."
"Victorian has come to stand for a particular set of values, perceptions, and experiences."
"The Victorian cultural world began to fall apart at the end of the 19th century."
"In the spirit of the Victorians, let me say a very Merry Christmas to one and all."
"The place was practically decimated; to this day, it remains one of the great natural disasters of the Victorian age."
"A silver bullet to the head or heart was all the proof Lord David Blackwood needed to ascertain the cause of London's ongoing terror."
"This period steeped in Victorian era fascination saw ancient cultures not as relics of the past but as windows into a grand albeit lost world."
"I love the colors, I love everything about the Victorian era."
"The Roma could be held up as this kind of perfect romantic exotic embodiment of what the late Victorians were yearning for."
"Ada, unusually for a woman of breeding in early Victorian era, had a very rational scientific upbringing."
"She's married for love and not for money which was very uncommon during the Victorian era."
"The Great Western Railway was a creation of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great Victorian genius."
"It serves as a fine example of a mid-Victorian campaign award."
"Mina transcends the conventions of the Victorian era, wielding her sharp intellect and unwavering courage to stand as a pillar of strength against the forces of darkness."
"Gilded Age, you know I love the stories of the Victorian age, the Gilded Age; they're my favorite."
"It wouldn't be until the 1840s when the Victorian press published an image of Queen Victoria with her husband Prince Albert and their children standing before a beautifully decorated Christmas tree that the public imagination was grabbed."
"The Victorians were the first to create what we might consider a modern Christmas."
"I've always grown up loved like a Victorian, Edwardian kind of settings in England."
"It would have been such a Victorian splendor and such an icon for this area."
"...it feels like a throwback to the Victorian era."
"Victorian England was so much fun."
"This style of equipment was worn during the first half of the Victorian era: the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, and on into the 1860s."
"Most Victorian parents were very proud of their children, who were often seen as prized possessions."
"He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era."
"The improvement in the advancements in the field of science was a major catalyst which prepared the writing of the polemic essays in the Victorian period."
"It just makes me feel like those Victorian ladies that sat in their parlor and did all of that decorative work."
"It's famous because in the Victorian era, the greatest city in the world grew up on its banks."
"Glasgow was such an important center for trade that during the Victorian era it was dubbed the second city of the empire."
"I am a big fan of the Victorian era, it's my favorite."
"During the Victorian era, butterfly collecting was very popular."
"The victorians did everything to the best of their abilities."
"It's about two magicians, essentially it's all set in Victorian times."
"I love the Victorian design on it."
"Victorian inspired blouses have been huge on the scene for autumn/winter."
"The Victorians were propelled by a desire for progress, innovation, and exploration."
"The Victorians are credited with creating the modern Christmas."
"Christmas cards were invented in the Victorian period and they had really unique, strange pictures on them."