The Victorian era lasted a whopping 63 years, from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria ruled over Great Britain and Ireland. It was an age of steam trains, gas lamps, and letters that took days to ...

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914. By Simon Heffer. Random House Books; 897 pages; £30. IN the late Victorian and early Edwardian period of 1880-1914, at least (see article), Britain had a ...

"There was more to the Victorians than public-school floggings, big whiskers and a canting disapproval of sex," says The Times of London. "During the 80 years or so following Queen Victoria's ...

Of All Sorts and Conditions: Transcoding Class in late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. (Book proposal of collected essays) As Patricia Ingham illustrates in The language of gender and class: ...