Victorian England & America
I
want to use this page of the site to show the contrasts
and maybe even similarities
between Victorian houses and an "antebellum" house like First Street.
Michael Curry's fascination
with houses and their
central place in his life and work play an important role in the Lives
of the Mayfair Witches.
This is also an excuse for me to indulge in Victorian anything.
I've been "into" Victoriana
since 1993, mostly Victorian England, but Michael Curry's restoration
specialty, besides
the monumental overhaul of
First Street, was the American Victorian style. A visit to San
Francisco will show you
what a Victorian home in
the United States looked like as many of them are still standing. A
story I recently wrote
also features a restored
Victorian home.
The
thing about the Victorian era is that despite its many
decades, it glides right
into the Edwardian era of the early 1900's so things that are Victorian
from that time period might
also have Edwardian
features and vice versa. They are similar. The name "Victorian" refers
to the Queen of England
at the time, Queen
Victoria. Periods in England's history are often referred to according
to the reigning monarch
of the time, for example, Elizabethan (Elizabeth I), Georgian, (King George, 1700's), and Regency
(King George's Prince
Regent). It is Regency England that immediately preceded Victorian
England.
So here
is my repository for links to websites that
I think define what the
Victorian period was in architecture and design to the best of what's
available along with some photo
scans of my own (soon to
come) just for fun. I hope this goes well...
Thank You to Victorian Station for the photos in the collage...
