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5 unusual facts about Victorian morality


Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun

Ulysses by James Joyce includes several references to Ardilaun, as Joyce considered him to be a prime Irish example of Victorian conventional respectability.

Izola Forrester

An embodiment of the post-Victorian independent woman, Forrester pursued her professional career both by choice and economic necessity, managing to balance it with motherhood and the raising of eight children born between 1901 and 1918.

Marriage and Morals

Marriage and Morals is a 1929 book by the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell that questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage.

Sex-negativity

To those who are sex-negative, also known as antisexualist, prude, puritan, Victorian or prohibitionist, sex is often seen something too sacred to allow the casual or irreverent exercise of.

Victorian morality

For instance, her uncle George IV was commonly perceived as a pleasure-seeking playboy, whose conduct in office was the cause of much scandal.



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