Not So Virtuous Victorians

A snapshot of the less illustrious side of Victorian times—the fascinating men, women, and scandals that shaped an era.

What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? Manners, manners and more manners. Behavior that was as rigid and constricted as the corsets women wore. From iron-knicker sexual prudery to men so uptight they furtively released their pent-up emotions in opium dens and prostitute hot spots. All, of course, exaggerated clichés worthy of a Victorian mel...