Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you.
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian angels, that they could do no wrong. I've always thought it was horseshit and does nobody any good. Remember, Lizzie Borden got off largely because the cultural agenda had convinced people that women were morally superior to men, so Lizzie Borden was "incapable" of taking the ax and giving her mother 40 whacks.
Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.
[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.
Redheads get so stereotyped. Youre either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.
I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
