In the late 1980s, due to the poor financial standing of many of the Victorian clubs, the VFL pursued a more national competition.

Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

Movies became the most popular visual art form of the late Victorian age.

Movies would become the most popular visual art form of the late late Victorian age "

Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.

The only exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably the Savoy Operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, all of which types of musical entertainments frequently spoofed operatic conventions.

Originally intended for adults, the show evolved into primarily a children's entertainment in the late Victorian era.

The author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setting of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables ( 1908 ).

It was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times and improved over the next half century as a local shopping place for its neighbourhood and the affluent area to the north.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, the property is an example of late Victorian Queen Anne style architecture in masonry.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.

Martini-Henrys were the standard British rifles of the late Victorian era, and Martini-Enfield conversions continued in second-line service until the Second World War.

In the late 1960s, the revival of interest in Victorian painting gained impetus, and a number of well-attended exhibitions were held.

Following the defeat of the Kirner government by the Liberal leader Jeff Kennett in late 1992, Bracks became Executive Director of the Victorian Printing Industry Training Board.

Huxley gained influence, and initiated the X Club, which used the journal Nature to promote evolution and naturalism, shaping much of late Victorian science.

Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

* The Twilight City An exploration of vagrancy and streetwalkers in late Victorian London

The 1897 novel Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

Footscray was relatively late in joining the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the predecessor of the AFL.

The Victorian era of the late 19th century is famous for the Victorian standards of personal morality.

This was then followed by a new puritanism from the late Victorian era to the mid-1900s.

As a late Victorian and Edwardian suburb, Stoke Newington prospered, and continued in relative affluence and civic pride with its own municipal government until changes brought about by the Second World War.

The first middle class suburban developments were built in the late Victorian and Edwardian period.

Monasteries had also supplied free food and alms for the poor and destitute, and it has been argued that the removal of this and other charitable resources, amounting to about 5 % of net monastic income, was one of the factors in the creation of the army of " sturdy beggars " that plagued late Tudor England, causing the social instability that led to the Edwardian and Elizabethan Poor Laws.

In spite of the popularity of Art Nouveau in Europe, the Edwardian Baroque style of architecture was widely favoured for public structures and was a revival of Christopher Wren – inspired designs of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue for William Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado ( 1885 ).

In 1895, when the town was chartered, Glen Ridge became one of the first communities to hire a town planner which caused the town to have late Victorian and Edwardian elements.

The majority of the houses are of Edwardian and late Victorian origin.

In the late 19th century, Margaret Chaloner, the wife of the first Lord Gisborough, began laying out new formal gardens of a typical late Victorian and Edwardian design with elaborate bedding schemes and gravelled paths.

Vivien was cultivated and very well-traveled, especially for a woman of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Growing extensively with the arrival of the railways, Hither Green is characterised by late 19th and early 20th century Victorian and Edwardian domestic architecture, most notably the Corbett Estate.

In the relative calm of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, the RIC won " grudging respect " from the population it policed.

In the United Kingdom, the Belle Époque overlapped with the late Victorian era and the Edwardian era, and in Germany, the Belle Époque coincided with the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

It was restored in 1986, and is a fine example of the late Edwardian style.

in 1909, the dining room too was renovated to a similar Edwardian look, but its present day layout did not emerge until the late 1940s, after various subsequent renovations.

This eye-catching choice of clothing was influential on the emerging hippie counter-culture, with young San Franciscans dressing in similarly late Victorian and early Edwardian era clothing.

Even unmade New Road had a shop purpose built in its short terrace of early Edwardian housing, closed for many years it reopened in the late 60s, trading into the seventies before closing again ( Mrs Bryson )

In the UK, The Good Old Days – which ran from 1953 to 1983 – featured modern artists performing dressed in late Victorian / Early Edwardian costume, either doing their own act or performing as a music hall artist of that period.

With the advent of gentrification, from the late 20th century, modern infill development now tends to be sympathetic with the traditional Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes.

The bird was a popular pet in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

The area is mostly residential, and mainly affluent, consisting of many large late Victorian and Edwardian blocks of mansion flats.

He loved writing historical fiction set in late Victorian and Edwardian England.

Tree lined boulevards were planned for Mary Street and Park Street along which late Victorian and Edwardian terrace housing proved popular.

The Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio is recognized as the largest collection of late Victorian and Edwardian homes in the United States, east of the Mississippi.