In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.

On that Mississippi riverine system today, including that of other sheltered waterways, industrial barge trafficking in bulk raw materials such as coal, coke, timber, iron ore and other minerals is extremely common in the developed world using huge cargo barges that connect in groups and trains-of-barges in ways which allow cargo volumes and weights which would astonish pioneers of modern barge systems and methods in the Victorian era.

As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.

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During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

It was in the Victorian era that Boudica's fame took on legendary proportions as Queen Victoria was seen to be Boudica's " namesake.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

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In the Victorian era it also became a centre for the production of clothing.

Its population grew with the arrival of the railways in the Victorian era and the advent of tourism.

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Fashions in crochet changed with the end of the Victorian era in the 1890s.

( One of the reasons formerly advanced for the non-completion of Babbage's engines had been that engineering methods were insufficiently developed in the Victorian era.

Category: Women of the Victorian era

Category: Women of the Victorian era

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

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Poor little birdie teased, by Victorian era illustrator Richard Doyle ( illustrator ) | Richard Doyle depicts the traditional view of an elf from later English folklore as a diminutive woodland humanoid.

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In the Victorian era, the Elizabethan legend was adapted to the imperial ideology of the day, and in the mid-20th century, Elizabeth was a romantic symbol of the national resistance to foreign threat.

Although originally associated with adult feasting and drinking, since the Victorian era, Father Christmas has gradually merged with the pre-modern gift giver St Nicholas ( Dutch Sinterklaas, hence Santa Claus ) and associated folklore.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location.

Lancelot Speed ( 1860 – 1931 ) was a famous Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature.

His attempt to hide near Sarah Curran, which cost him his life, and his parting letter to her made him into a romantic character, which appealed to the Victorian Era's appetite for Romanticism, which prolonged his fame.

From the park, all five towers appear in enfilade to produce a wonderfully crowded variegated and romantic Victorian silhouette " that has become the skyline of the capital of Wales.

In the Victorian age there was a renewed interest in the idea of courtly love, or the finding of spiritual fulfillment in the purest form of romantic love.

It is an imposing Victorian mansion in its own park with a romantic skyline of turrets and battlements.

As the Victorian scholar Patrick Brantlinger notes in his introduction to She: " Little that Haggard witnessed matched the romantic depictions of ' the dark continent ' in boys ' adventure novels, in the press, and even in such bestselling explorers ' journals as David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ( 1857 ).

A legend developed that England would not fall to a foreign invader so long as there were ravens at the Tower of London ; although this is often thought to be an ancient belief, the official Tower of London historian, Geoff Parnell, believes that this is actually a romantic Victorian invention.

In Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ( 2011 ), the cerebral detective ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) is transformed into an athletic ( and romantic ) action hero in a steampunk fantasy version of Victorian England.

These have ranged from historical recreations of the Victorian London of Charles Dickens and Sherlock Holmes, to the romantic comedies of Bridget Jones's Diary and Notting Hill, by way of crime films, spy thrillers, science fiction and the " swinging London " films of the 1960s.

In reading Te Rangikāheke's original version in Māori, Laurie found that Tutanekai had a male friend, hoa takātapui and Tutaneka was " nowhere near as impressed by Hinemoa as the romantic Victorian narrative had construed ".

During the Victorian era, French Orientalist painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme presented an idealized depiction of female toplessness in Muslim harem baths, while Eugène Delacroix, a French romantic artist, invoked images of liberty as a topless woman.

The art gallery includes a large collection of paintings, focusing on romantic Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art, with some earlier paintings.

Frederick Courteney Selous image remains a classic, romantic portrait of a proper Victorian period English gentleman of the colonies, one whose real life adventures and exploits of almost epic proportions generated successful Lost World and Steampunk genre fictional characters like Allan Quatermain, to a large extent an embodiment of the popular " white hunter " concept of the times ; yet he remained a modest and stoic pillar in personality all throughout his life.

But with a Scottish accent it no doubt derives from something much closer to home ( assuming it is not just the romantic invention of a Victorian antiquary ); ' dogon ' is a Scots term for a worthless person, a villain and this could by association have been one of the sanctuary stones associated with the church.

After early stage experience with J. L. Toole's and Helena Modjeska's companies from 1883, Waller became known, by the late 1880s, for romantic leads, both in Shakespeare and in popular costume dramas of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Faderman writes that women in Renaissance and Victorian times made reference to both Ruth and Naomi and " Davidean " friendship as the basis for their romantic friendships.

A final blow to the island's already low tiger population came during the Dutch colonial period, when shikari hunting trips were conducted by European sportsmen coming from Java, armed with high-powered rifles and a romantic but disastrous Victorian hunting mentality.

Crown Derby ’ s patterns became immensely popular during the late Victorian era, as their romantic and lavish designs exactly met the popular taste of the period.

The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th century during the late Romantic Period amidst a general resurgence of interest in traditional Germanic culture, in particular in connection with romantic nationalism in Scandinavia and the related Viking revival in Victorian era Britain — the latter having associations with earlier Romanticism.