Victorian hairstyles combined charm and complexity to create timeless looks with curls, braids, and volume. Discover the most captivating looks from the era.

In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...

If the three ages were to be judged by their literature alone, the Victorian era would certainly be distinguished for purity of thought, for chastity of feeling, and for largeness of ideals.

As Aaron Shapiro, one of our students, put it, “Victorian literature is not easy reading, and the average accounting or business student would be intimidated or hesitant to take a Victorian ...

The Victorian era—which emerged during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901—was a time of buttoned-up fashions and rigid social rules, though people still found ways to express ...

Building materials favored in the Victorian era, such as dark wood, also help conjure a macabre atmosphere. “The rooms felt really heavy and dark and kind of foreboding,” Kelsey says.

McCarthy hopes literary connections like these, so persuasively laid out in “The Blue Period,” will give scholars and students new approaches to Black writers of the 1950s and 1960s.

A handful of esteemed designers have recently been embracing jet, incorporating the featherlight gemstone into fine jewelry pieces stocked by influential stores.

Oct. 2—From black-draped cloths over mirrors to an old wooden coffin resting on a stand in the hallway, the mourning period of the Victorian era is now on full display at Merrehope. Back for its ...

And Victorian literature featured its fair share of eroticism. One particularly famous book was , which was filled with a man’s vivid accounts of his sexual adventures.