Even though her writing conforms to Victorian conventions, including the use of the name "Mrs Gaskell", she usually framed her stories as critiques of contemporary attitudes.

Two years later he followed with "Jardin aux Lilas," a tale of lovers constricted by Victorian convention.

Their sexual sizzle is amusingly tempered by Victorian conventions.

His work mainly consisted of creating what was considered a typical Tudor experience in the 14th Century coaching inn, but actually followed Victorian conventions of the time.

Coyne is remembered for his humor and puns and for his satire of Victorian social and artistic conventions.

The singers, virtually all company regulars, are a well-matched ensemble, and are masters at mocking Victorian acting conventions, whether portraying mustache-twirling evil or eyelash-blinking innocence.

Regina Sartwell, a wealthy young woman with epilepsy, and Olive Honsinger, her maid, join in friendship and a fierce desire to escape Victorian conventions.

Earlier in this century, American society burst the bonds of Victorian and Edwardian convention and stricture and went on the years-long party remembered as the Jazz Age.

His goal is to put Dodgson's pictures back in their context - to stress that we have lost touch with Victorian conventions, which Dodgson as a photographer largely obeyed.

Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept much private information from the public, but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed, for example, regarding Austen's romantic relationships.