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...
