Victoria

Greater than 120 years after the top of the Vic­to­ri­an period, we’d assume that we retain a kind of accu­fee cul­tur­al mem­o­ry of the Vic­to­ri­ans them­selves: of their social mores, their aes­thet­ic sen­si­bil­i­ties, their ambi­tions nice and small, their many and var­ied hang-ups. Among the most vivid rep­re­sen­ta­tions of those qual­i­ties have come right down…