Do you sometimes long for those times when one still exchanged letters, elegant both in the choice of words and in respect to their style? Wax sealed letters written in a wonderful handwriting on fine, thick paper?

Can you imagine travelling back in time and living your life in the Victorian Era? What would it be like to experience the wonders of this age, its glories and drawbacks, the emergence of new technologies and insights? How would you feel about life in the straitjacket of rigid social norms when it is necessary to weigh your every word?

Here's an idea for a truly Victorian experience.

Find yourself a pen pal from that era. A fake pen pal of course. Slip into the role of famous historical Victorians or of an imaginary character living in that age. Then write letters from this person's POV.

What about rewriting the love letters of Victoria and Albert?

A correspondence between Charles Darwin and Karl Marx?

Or imagine that you work as a servant in a Kensington mansion and write to your cousin who has emigrated to Australia.

Or are you a Pre-Raphaelite painter asking a colleague for advice?

There is a subreddit where you could find a writing partner for a Victorian correspondence. It is called r/fictitious_letters

There you can post requests for imaginary pen pals.

I hope you like the idea. It would be nice to meet you in the community!

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I’m reading an annotated version of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pioneer Girl and this photo is of her paternal grandparents and some aunts and uncles.

I’ve never seen what looks like (and I’m sure isn’t!) an X carved on the one woman’s head.

Yeah I'm kinda struggling on this stuff like when their at the office pherhaps I'm unsure and need some info

So I've got a few questions on the late victorian era because I'm kinda like writing a fanfic for two gay male character, 1890, for a detective and journalist so id like to find out how they go about that. I want to do some research (seems a lot for a fanfic but also for general research) Something about a molly house I'd also like to find out abit about

I know its an obvious answer, but life for homosexual men like things used against them? I don't know, anything really

Policing in late victorian too and detectives, huge cases and how they would go about that, like murder, or arresting homosexuals, punishments

Journalism and photography in late victorian how would they process photographs? How did? cameras work then, newspapers too

Pubs and bars is another thing

Life for lower class men vs upper class or middle class even

LATE VICTORIAN FASHION

These are all really odd questions but I'd love to know more

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I'm trying to write a book set in Victorian England and am wondering about the specifics of inheritance between unmarried women. The deceased is an unmarried woman who leaves all her possessions (including a house and land) to her also unmarried niece. Her brother (the niece's father) is still alive though, so would it have to go to him? Sorry, might seem obvious but if I made a mistake it might be glaring to someone who actually knows what they're on about.

P.s. might be planning to make the aunt Irish. Any thoughts on how Irish immigrants might've been received in Victorian England? Just a bonus question really. Thanks

I have a question about brothels in the late Victorian era in England. I'm writing a novel, and the protagonist follows her friend to a brothel. She doesn't know her friend is a prostitute at the time, but upon discovering her entering the brothel starts to think she might be a prostitute. My question is, if the protagonist went into the brothel after her friend, would that spell trouble for the protagonist? What type of danger would she be putting herself in? Additionally, would she be putting her friend in danger if she said to someone in the brothel that she was looking for her friend?