Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.
Once a rough fur trading outpost, Victoria found its wealth as the outfitting center for British Columbia’s gold rush, and became the elegant provincial capital in 1871.
This week's program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters.
这次《Up Your Street》节目将带你去哈罗盖特,约克郡一个小城镇。哈罗盖特在多利亚时期是时髦旅游地,那时人们来此在矿物水中泡温泉。
Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt.
Two hundred years on from the birth of my great great grandmother, Queen Victoria, Prince Philip and I have been delighted to welcome our eighth great grandchild into our family.
The customary decorations have changed little in the years since that picture of Victoria and Albert's tree first appeared, although of course electric lights have replaced the candles.
Known as the Angel of the Crimea, Nightingale returned to England and received a hero's welcome, a medal from Queen Victoria and a gift of 250,000 dollars.