They critiqued Victorian sexual morality and the traditional institutions of family and marriage that were seen to enslave women.

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

He is regarded as having been one of the most influential scholars in opposing Victorian morality regarding sex.

The Victorian era is famous for the Victorian standards of personal morality.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

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

In the first sexual revolution ( 1870 – 1910 ), Victorian morality lost its universal appeal.

Virginia Woolf's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and T. S. Eliot would discuss religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle against Victorian era morality.

The Clapham sect have been credited with playing a significant part in the development of Victorian morality, through their writings, their societies, their influence in Parliament, and their example in philanthropy and moral campaigns, especially against slavery.

In the UK, starting in the 19th century, Victorian morality disallowed innuendo in the theatre as being unpleasant, particularly for the ladies in the audience.

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But as Halloween was transported to the United States by waves of European immigrants, the licentious and rowdy elements of Halloween were domesticated to conform with the emerging Victorian era morality.

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* The Confessions of Georgina ( 1893 ) by Julian Robinson ( aka Le Compte Du Bouleau, Stanislas Matthew de Rhodès ) – a tale of bondage and domination that satirizes the hypocrisy of Victorian morality.

* But the brutality of the fight is widely publicised and gives rise to condemnation of the sport by a public that is increasingly influenced by Victorian ethics and morality.

* The demise of bareknuckle boxing in England is consistent with the spread of Victorian ethics and morality.

His speciality in venereal disease gave him an unusual access to and perspective on late Victorian aristocratic morality.

This view could be ascribed to Victorian morality applied anachronistically to ancient times.

Ghosts had challenged the hypocrisy of Victorian morality and was deemed indecent for its veiled references to syphilis.

Although their relationship was a subject of gossip in London political circles from 1881, later public knowledge of the affair in an England governed by " Victorian morality " with a " nonconformist conscience " created a huge scandal, as adultery was prohibited by the Ten Commandments.

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For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

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.

Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

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.

Potter ’ s work as a scientific illustrator and her work in mycology is highlighted in several chapters in Linda Lear, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, 2007 ; Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

This is usually taken to be a comment on the way that Victorian England proclaimed the Christian values of forgiveness, charity and poverty on a Sunday, only to ignore them for the rest of the week and the practical running of its life.

He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the " golden age " of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation .".

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.

Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy ( i. e. Steampunk ).

Father Christmas is said to wear ( these days ) a bright red suit, but in Victorian and Tudor times he wore a bright green suit.

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

What remains is in any case very different from the full-blooded matter and the forbidding materialism of the Victorian scientist.

Bead embroidery, a popular type of handwork during the Victorian era, is enjoying a renaissance in modern jewellery making.

A typical Victorian koala ( formerly P. cinereus victor ) has longer, thicker fur ; is a darker, softer grey, often with chocolate-brown highlights on the back and forearms ; and has a more prominently light-coloured ventral side and fluffy white ear tufts.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

This stabilizing synthesis of the Realist political and Romantic aesthetic ideology, was called by various names: in Great Britain it is the Victorian era.