Victorian

Victorian or Victorians may refer to:

  • Of or relating to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
  • Victorian era (or period), a term derived from the lengthy 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria and particularity various styles, ideas, and trends associated with that era:
    • Victorian America
    • Victorian architecture
    • Victorian house
    • Victorian decorative arts
    • Victorian fashion
    • Victorian literature
    • Victorian morality
    • Victoriana
    • Victorianism in esthetics and manners
  • A resident of the state of Victoria (Australia)
  • RMS Victorian, a ship
  • Saint Victorian (disambiguation), various saints
  • Victorian (horse)
  • Victorian Football Club (disambiguation), either of two defunct Australian rules football clubs

Famous quotes containing the word victorian:

    I belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the cloud on whose horizon was no bigger than a man’s hand.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.
    —C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

    Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)