Oh, why not? Let's make this Victorian Week.

I've been on a 19th century kick recently, so I may as well get it out of my system with a series of posts about the Victorian Era, that period of posterity, chastity, and cool hats in the United Kingdom that was defined by the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901.

Since I'm going to be talking about stuff that takes place outside of Britain - like New York and Gotham City - it should more accurately by called 19th Century Week, but that doesn't have the same ring to it as Victorian Week, so I pray that you, gentle reader, will indulge me and not look askance at my inaccurate nomenclature.

Let us begin. Take my hand, dear one, and tread the fog-slick paving stones of bygone London with me. What secrets lurk in the shadows cast by gaslight? I dunno, man, I'm just trying to be all fancy and shit.



(Illustration by Timothy Lantz for The Gaslight Grimoire, an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories.)

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