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All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
My humor was Victorian - and still is.
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.
I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.
I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
I will buy Victorian tea dresses and the like, but I don't really think about them as investment pieces - just beautiful and vintage things.
I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.
I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent Victorian era. It helps romanticize your view of life.
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.