Victorian Royalty

Victoria, born 1819 was Queen from 1837 until her death in 1901. The Victorian era was at the height of the Industrial Revolution, a period of significant social, economic, and technological change across the Western World.

The Young Victoria

The latest about the upcoming movie, "The Young Victoria."  The movie will chronicle Victoria's early rise to power, focusing on the romantic courtship and her legendary marriage to Prince Albert.  The film begins i...

Famous People

During the Victorian era many famous people lived and had a significant impact on society. The lenses featured here are just some of them. Vote for your favourite in our pole near the bottom of this lens.

All About the Charles Dickens Classic "A Christmas Carol"

Charles Dickens began writing his "Little Carol" in October, 1843 finishing it by the end of November in time to be published for Christmas with illustrations by John Leech. Feuding with his publishers, Dickens financed the publishing of th...

Jerome K Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England on 2nd May 1859 to Jerome Clapp and Marguerite Jones. He is perhaps best known for his book 'Three Men in a Boat' a humourous account of three men, based on Jerome and two friends, travelling up the T...

Dr. David Livingstone - Famed Scottish Missionary and Explorer

David Livingstone (born March 19th, 1813 – May 1st, 1873) was a Victorian era Scottish medical missionary and noted explorer of Africa.  He is most widely known for his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the pop...

Henry Morton Stanley - 19th Century Explorer

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, (born January 28th, 1841 – died May 19th, 1904), also known as *Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) in Congo, was a 19th-century Welsh-born journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for the...

Wild About Wilde!

One of the most quoted people in history, Oscar Wilde is a favorite of mine! Novelist, poet, playwright and damned clever fellow! Learn more about him and other great quotables here!

The Not So Famous

Read these lenses and gleam a little on the lives of Ordinary People throughout history and in the Victorian Era, and their personal achievements.

The Not So Famous

Every family has its black sheep, and if you dig deeply enough its heroes (often forgotten heroes).  This lens is about those who through their own personal achievements have left their mark on society in some small way.  People like T...

Mysteries and Amazing Facts in History

There have always been mysteries in history and the Victorian era has its fare share. Browse these lenses to discover more.

The Crimes of Jack the Ripper

I've always been interested in true crime, especially cases that have yet to be solved. I suppose there's a part of me that would love to be the first to discover the identity of the murderer, however unlikely it might be. I've developed this lens for...

Mysterious and Amazing History

This lens is dedicated to the Earth, it's people, and it's mysterious and amazing history.

Authors

Love good literature? Then why not visit this lens from someone who has a passion for writing it.

Anne Whitfield Author

I live in the beautiful Southern Highlands area of New South Wales, Australia. I'm married with three children and I write historical fiction and contemporary novels and short stories. The areas I have set my books include bo...

Cuisine

The Victorian's may not have invented food but they certainly enjoyed it, sometimes putting their own interpretation on old recipes that have been past down from generation to generation.

Wedding Cakes

A lens helping people find wedding cake resources.  This lens is intended to be a comprehensive source for the category of wedding cakes.  Anything and everything about weddings and wedding cakes will eventually be added. I intend to provid...

Culinary Herbs

Sweet or culinary herbs are those annual, biennial or perennial plants whose green parts, tender roots or ripe seeds have an aromatic flavor and fragrance, due either to a volatile oil or to other chemically named substances peculiar to the individua...

Recipes from Grandma

My Recipes from Grandma recipe blog contains many of the old recipes I have collected over the last 40 years - some from my grandmother, some from my mother-in-law, some from estate sales, some from friends, and some from magazines and newspapers. An...

Culture

Victorian Culture was rich and varied, visit these lenses and learn some more about that culture.

Victorian House Plans - Let's Remodel This Old House

  Renovate, remodel and repair your Victorian house.  Find articles, house plans, photos and advertisements to help with your home remodeling project for your Victorian home.

Pre-Raphaelite Art: Legends, Lore, and Ladies

THE LEGENDS - of King Arthur and the knights, of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ophelia, of fairies, nymphs and magical beings. THE LORE - of Zeus and Apollo, Venus and Aphrodite, of all the richness of Greek mythology, from the heights of Mt. Olympus to...

The Victorian West: Books, Gifts & Information

Sherry Monahan delves into the history of the Victorian Wild West. Sherry Monahan has been researching and writing about the Victorian West since 1995. Visit her websites to learn how the Victorians adapted to the western frontier. You...

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Fashion

Fashion blossomed in the Victorian period. Browse these lenses to share in that fashion.

Vintage Fashion Guild

The Vintage Fashion Guild (VFG) is an international organization for vintage fashion professionals. We invite you to register and join us on our vintage clothing forums for discussion of vintage fashion related topics.  Everyone with an inte...

The Vintage Scarf

Welcome To The Vintage Scarf! Vintage and Retro Vintage Businesses are usually run by folks who are passionate with their field. Happy to focus on what we love. Vintage and Retro Vintage. Here at The Vintage Scarf, I offer an abundance of beautiful...

Victorian Sewing, Machine Embroidery & Design

The purpose of this lens is to share my love for lush Victorian design, machine embroidery, and my favorite home decorating projects and techniques. I operate an eBay store Dove Originals Trims where I sell 1000 trims, many of which have ended up in...

Research Vintage Clothing, Dating, Vintage Clothing Care, Fashion History, Fabric Identification & Resources

Researching vintage clothing is the biggest part of selling & wearing vintage clothing. There are different elements of detail that stand out for each individual person, and knowing the era which it came is important when deciding what vintage pi...

Fiction

The 19th century saw the novel become the leading form of literature in English, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Jules Verne (1828-1905) are just two of many famous authors. The lens featured here has an interesting Victorian twist.

STEAMPUNK SPECULATIVE FICTION

I love the steampunk genra of speculative fiction.It is my favorite besides cyberpunk. The victorian settings,incredible steam powered machines and contraptions can really stir the imagination.This lense will introduce you to this world in film,books...

Genealogy

Invariably, the wealth of family research is in the Victorian Era. The lens featured here gives an insight into that period.

The World of Genealogy Research

After spending a few years researching my own family tree I wanted to "branch" out a bit.  I enjoy digging up new finds and not only strictly for myself.  I love doing research in general and jump on the chance to look up informat...

A Victorian Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles by George Burgess (1829-1905)

George Burgess who visited America three times not only compiled his own scrapbook but he also wrote his own diary, poems, his religious thoughts and at least two books on Phrenology. In his diary he wrote about his life and his family; his children,...

Innovations

What impact did the Victorian era have on Innovations?

U.S. Patent Reproductions

We specialize in offering late 18th to 21th century U.S. Patent facsimiles of wrist & pocket watches, chains, fobs and other famous and/or curious inventions! We are proud to be the only internet purveyor specializing in horological patent reprod...

American Recorders, Visionaries & Artists: Currier and Ives

Currier & Ives' vision  of America is  as  deeply  rooted in our collective  memory as the  vision of any other America.  At Christmas and Thanksgiving,  it is often their artwork, their ideas that reach to...

Memorabilia

All said and done, the Victorian's did things in style, making memorabilia not just nostalgic but a thing of beauty. Why not visit these lenses and share in that beauty and nostalgia.

Victoria's Curio exclusively on Ruby Lane

Victoria's Curio is known for Rosenthal, R.S. Prussia, Hermann Ohme, Austrian, and more wonderful European porcelain. Our specialty (and favorite) is chocolate pots. But, you can also find tea sets, hand painted plates and bowls plus beautiful Ster...

Handmade Victorian Cards

Shop at Victorian Cards for beautiful one-of-a-kind handmade greeting cards designed using the original vintage postcards from the early 1900s. You also can add a vintage hanky to your greeting card, purchase a copper or silver frame for your postcar...

Victorian to Collectible Costume Jewelry and more.

ridi2buy antiques, collectibles, & vintage jewelry.  Collecting is a true illness! After 33 years of buying antiques & collectibles, we decided we needed to make some room for ourselves in our shrinking house. Right now the wife is selli...

Victorian Trade Cards

Before radio and television, trade cards were considered a mainstay. These colorful, interesting cards were circulated to generate interest in a product. Nowadays, they are quite collectable--and beautiful.

Penny Black 1840

T-shirts, sweatshirts and gift items for philatelists and stamp collectors everywhere with an elegant range of striking designs inspired by the world's first postage stamp - The Penny Black.  

Politics

The Victorian era marks the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire and the beginnings of modern democracy as we know it today.

The Chartists - C19th radical campaigners for 'One Man One Vote'

C19th radical campaigners for 'One Man One Vote', in Britain. It was only in 1929 that women, in Britain, were granted the right to vote on the same basis as men. In the early C19th the majority of population irrespective of their sex did not have a...

Josephine Butler

Josephine Butler and her Role in the Campaign for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869. In the late 1860s there was a public outcry over the Contagious Diseases Acts. Foremost amongst those calling for the repeal of these...

Traditions

Many Traditions stem back far beyond the Victorian era were adopted, embraced and often enhanced by the Victorians in their image. And some of the more recent traditions, like Father's Day, were conceived by people born during the Victorian Era.

Adjectives: A Unit Study for Valentine's Day

Fill the day with arts, crafts, science experiments and ways to say I Love You. Pour out your feelings of love throughout the day. But it's not Valentine's Day you say? No Problem, these activities adapt to any other day or holiday. You will find b...

DEAR DAD JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SAY

Happy Father's DayAny man can be a Father, but it takes a special person to be called Dad.         The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman born in...

Wedding Traditions & Customs - Plus Historical Wedding Fashions - 1850 -1950

By Sharon Stajda, I bet you can't wait to start planning your wedding? Perhaps you are giving some thought on how you can make the day extra special.  Why not including some old wedding traditions or ethnic cultural...

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Victorian Life and Values

On Nathanville you can learn about Phrenology; read Mother's Last Words by Mary Sewell, or browse the Victorian Scrapbook by George Burgess and learn more about Victorian values and views.

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A Victorian Scrapbook by George Burgess 1839-1905

Below is one of over 500 articles from the Victorian Scrapbook by George Burgess, which will be changed monthly. So bookmark this page and come back.

THE MODEL BABY

It is the image of its father, unless it is the very picture of its mother. It is the best-tempered little thing in the world, never crying but in the middle of the night, or screaming but when it is being washed. It is astonishing how quiet it is whilst feeding. It understands everything, and proves its love for learning by tearing the leaves out of every book, and grasping with both hands at the engravings. It is the cleverest child that was ever born, and says "papa," or something very like it, when scarcely a month old. It takes early to pulling whiskers, preferring those of strangers. It has only one complaint, and that is the wind; but it is frequently troubled with it. It is the most wonderful child that was ever seen, and would swallow both its tiny fists if it was not for a habit of choking. It dislikes leaving home, rarely stopping on a visit longer than a day. It has a strange hostility for its nurse's cap and nose, which it will clutch and hold with savage tenacity if in the least offended. It is never happy but in its mother's arms, especially if it is being nursed by a gentleman. It prefers the floor to the cradle, which it never stops in longer than it can help. It is very playful, delighting in pulling the table-cloth off, or knocking the china ornaments off the mantelpiece, or upsetting its food on somebody's lap. It invents a new language of its own almost before it can speak, which is perfectly intelligible to its parents, but Greek to every one else. It is not fond of public entertainments, invariably crying before it has been at one five minutes. It dislikes treachery in any shape, and repels the spoonful of sugar if it fancies there is a powder of the bottom of it. Medicine is its greatest horror, next to cold water. It has no particular love for dress, generally tearing to pieces any handsome piece of finery, lace especially, as soon as it is put on. It inquires deeply into everything, and is very penetrating in the construction of a drum, the economy of a work-box, or the anatomy of a doll, which it likes all the better without any head or arms. It has an intuitive hatred of a doctor, and fights with its legs and hands and first teeth against his endearments. It has a most extraordinary taste for colours, imbibing them greedily in every shape, more especially from the wooden tenants of Noah's Ark, which are to be found in mouth of every baby. In fact, there never was a child like it, and the Model Baby proves this by surviving the thousands-and-one experiments of rival grannies and mothers-in-law, and outliving, to the athletic age of kilts and bare legs, the villainous compounds of Godfrey and Dalby, and the whole poison-chest of Elixirs, Carminatives, and Cordials, which babies are physically heirs to.

Mother's Last Words

Mary Sewell, the mother of Anna Sewell (the author of `Black Beauty') was born into the Quaker faith in 1797, and lived at the Blue Lodge, Wick from 1858 to 1864. She had a great love of poetry and wrote `Mother's Last Words' (which sold millions of copies throughout the world) while living at Wick, near Bristol.

Read Mother's Last Words on Nathanville

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spirituality Great group. I gave it the Excellent Groups Award and featured it on my Great Groups Lensography Come take a look and get your badge! Posted June 13, 2008

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Evelyn_Saenz This is a very well organized group. I look forward to reading all the lenses here. Thank you for adding Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid to the Pre Victorian Era. Posted January 26, 2008

 

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Pre Victorian

Pre Victorian, people and events that may have influenced or impacted on Victorian Society.

Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid

Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...

Anyone else you wish to mention who impacted on Victorian society (1837-1901)?

For example although William Wilberforce (1759-1833) died just four years before the start of the Victorian Era his campaign against the slave trade had a very profound sociological and humanitarian effect on it.

William Wilberforce a British politician, philanthropist, abolitionist and leader of the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade was the driving force behind the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade and the eventual abolition of slavery itself throughout the British Empire of the time. The Slave Trade Act received royal assent in 1807 and in 1833 the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act to give all slaves in the British Empire their freedom. Sadly slavery continued to exist for a few decades, notably in the Southern States of America, although the message of Wilberforce must undoubtedly have rung down those decades and assisted the abolition movements in other countries. And in fact slavery has never been totally eradicated from the world and is still a feature of many societies even today.

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Great Victorians

Margaret_Schaut By the way, did you know that Edison made the FIRST Frankenstein movie? You can see it here at www.squidoo.com/frankensteinsquids which was my test lens! Its very funny now! Posted March 11, 2008

MidnightEden I would suggest Josephine Butler - who I think does not receive the recognition she deserves. But then maybe I am just biased considering my lens ;-) Posted October 03, 2007

giddygabby Splendid group hq, Nathanville--a good example for the rest of us. Love all the informational modules, as well as the clean look, and the way you organize lenses so each one is highlighted, in a way. Posted March 03, 2007

shinhwa wow great lens, thanks for creating this one--keep posting! truly a great resource! Posted February 20, 2007

Nathanville Another noted philanthropist of the Victorian age, Lord Shaftesbury was a social benefactor to the poor of England and amongst many other things campaigned long to abolish the shame of child labour in the mines and other places. This form of slavery in England went on long after slavery in the colonies had been abolished. Posted February 12, 2007

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Christmas Traditions

Many Christmas traditions stem back far beyond the Victorian era were adopted from Pagan and other beliefs, embraced and often enhanced in the Victorian image to make Christmas as we know it to be today.

Victorian Christmas All Year!

America is incredibly blessed to feel at home with so many different Christmas traditions, decorations, music and food! One of the most beautiful and  elegant forms of our Christmas celebrations are those from the Victorian era. As at Frankenmut...

Victorian Christmas

Are you dreaming of a beautiful old fashioned Christmas this year?  Imagine the grace of a Victorian Christmas right in your own home.  Simple decorations and old fashioned recipes can bring back that olde-tyme spirit. Have yourself a very V...

Father Christmas

In England Father Christmas makes the present giving rounds on Christmas Eve.  In Victorian England the figure of Father Christmas could be dressed in blue, green or brown as well as red.  He is depicted with a toy sack much like Santa Clau...

Gingerbread Victorian Doll Houses

Probably  the most beloved and cherished of all doll houses, perhaps it  is when girls are small that they develop such  a great love  of Victorian homes! I am building this page to be  ready  for  the Christmas sea...

Gingerbread Victorian Homes

Victorian Gingerbread Homes are distinctively  beautiful, and one really must have a taste for that style  to love it. I am researching and gathering together the best information I can find to make this a useful and interesting page for&nbs...