VictorianVoices.net is the Web's largest topical archive of articles from Victorian periodicals - a veritable online encyclopedia of Victorian life, featuring over 12,000 articles from hundreds of Victorian-era magazines from Britain and America.
Want to host an authentic Victorian tea? You'll find a host of scrumptious recipes for tea-cakes, scones, biscuits and savories in our recipes section! In love with Victorian fashion? Our fashion gallery offers over 1500 fashion images from the 1860's through early 1900's. Want to decorate like a Victorian? Our household section will inspire you with ways to make your home a classic sanctuary of elegance and repose! Love those royals? Meet Queen Victoria and her family (along with their favorite pets), and get a glimpse of the other crowned heads of Europe!
Here's a look at our top ten most popular categories:
- Victorian Britain: Explore Victorian life from the streets of London with their child-sweeps and costermongers, to the rural farms and lanes of the countryside, to the remotest of the outer islands. Get a glimpse of the British government in action, and discover how Victorians struggled to resolve the critical social issues of their day.
- The Victorian Woman: Think women's lib began in the 20th century? Think again! The Victorian era was an age of tremendous emancipation for women. Sound crazy? You won't think so once you explore Victorian women's advances in work, education, and recreation!
- Victorian America: From Aunt Mehitabel's visit to the nation's capital to John Muir's hair-raising adventure on an Alaskan glacier, enjoy a guided tour of 19th-century America. Explore Native American cultures, pay a visit to our special section on the Civil War, and get a glimpse of America as viewed by our often bewildered cousins across the pond!
- Victorian Fashion: Our fashion section brings you detailed explanations of the latest styles from a host of Victorian women's magazine, along with an extraodinary gallery of over 1500 Victorian fashion images!
- Victorian Life: To truly understand the Victorians, it's vital to understand how they lived. This section looks at such topics as transportation, etiquette, social occasions, religion, country life, city life, and more!
- Victorian Cooking: Planning a teaparty or a 10-course supper "a la Russe"? Victorian cooking often gets a bad rap, but as you'll discover here, many recipes were healthy and tasty!
- Victorian Crafts: If you love creating beautiful things, you'll love this collection of elegant patterns and detailed projects. Nor were Victorian women limited to needlework; this section offers tips on metalwork, woodcarving, and a host of "forgotten" Victorian crafts!
- The Victorian Home and Garden: Explore the many things a Victorian lady needed to know about housekeeping, cleaning, and home economics - from setting up one's first household to the finer points of home decor. Plus, find out how to manage the servants - or how to be one!
- Victorian Pets: Victorians loved their pets, and told amazing tales of the antics of their cats, dogs, birds, horses, and more unusual pets (including a mongoose and a stag beetle). Discover how Victorians cared for (and pampered) their pets, visit the Battersea Home for Lost Dogs, and meet the pets of the royal family!
- The Civil War: Surely the defining event in the American Victorian period! Our Civil War section brings you a host of articles from Century Magazine and others that aren't available anywhere else on the Web - truly a researcher's dream!
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- Architecture - the latest in "modern" construction, along with buildings of the past
- Business - an inside look at Victorian industries and trades on both sides of the Atlantic
- Children - from the nursery to the schoolroom, how to raise the Victorian child
- Education - college life, adult education options, and the burning controversy of higher education for women
- Health - some surprisingly modern and sensible Victorian health advice
- Holidays - Christmas, New Year's, and all the wonderful holidays in between
- Inventions - a look at the latest technologies and discoveries in the "age of invention"
- Issues - from poverty to temperance, a look at Victorian social issues and causes
- Military - the life of the Victorian soldier, and the latest in weapons technologies
- Music - 40 years of the "latest hits" from Victorian magazines
- Nature - glimpses of the natural world by some of the top nature writers of the 19th century
- Objects & Antiquities - a collector's "cabinet of curiosities"
- Oddities & Eccentricities - from diving horses to champion orange-peelers, a look at the eccentrics beloved by the Victorian age
- People - artists, writers, scientists, leaders - the people who made the Victorian world what it was
- Recreation - from parlor games to cricket championships, a look at how Victorians kicked back and relaxed (includes a section on travel and camping tips)
- Statistics - lists, charts and tables on a host of Victorian topics
- Work - the Victorian world of work, including jobs for women, working life, and some truly odd jobs
- World - glimpses of culture, society, and travel destinations throughout the world (warning: often not politically correct!)
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But wait, as they say, there's more... Our Fiction section brings you over 600 Victorian tales, including a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand, a host of other "rivals of Sherlock Holmes" detective tales, stories by Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Frank Stockton, E. Nesbit and more. Discover tales you already know and love - and "new" authors whose works deserve to be remembered! This section includes more than 100 classic children's tales and international folktales from the pages of The Strand.
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