Culture & Society

General

Victorian Society in America - organization and information resources
The Victorian Web - Social History
The Penny Magazine - a weekly for the Victorian working class
Dictionary of Victorian London - Social History
Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
Victoriana: The 19th Century Online
Victorian Station: Lifestyles
Victorian Slang Glossary
The Victorian Web: Religion
The 19th Century City: Women, Wives, and Widows (Z. Ashe)
The 19th Century City: Housing and Health (Z. Ashe)
Mapping the Spaces of Poverty in The Nether World and the Late-Victorian Culture of Reform - article by Allen and Fellow, University of VIrginia (Crystal Palace Online Publications)
The Individual, the City, and the Literary Text - article by Rowena Fowler, University of Bristol, examining "some of the ways in which the Victorians’ understanding of numbers framed their sense of themselves as city-dwellers and citizens" (Crystal Palace Online Publications)

Correspondence
The fine art of letter writing

My Darling Husband - overview and guide to crafting 19th century correspondence (Homespun Living History Guild, Victoria Rumble)
About 19th Century Letter Writing - (Library and Archives Canada)
Letter Writing in Jane Austen's Time - images of early 19th century letters, writing implements, and accessories (Jane Austen Today)
19th Century Manuscript Styles - samples of crosshatching and other 18th and 19th century writing formats (UNC University Libraries)

Fashion
Overview

Ladies

Gentlemen

Mustaches of the 19th Century blog featuring images from the University of Kentucky Archives

Victorian Fashion - patterns and costumes for sale

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