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Sherlock Holmes
fictional character (consulting detective) created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Persian poetry. Omar Khayyam’s robāʿiyyāt (“quatrains”). Also Persian-English quatrains translations by Edward Fitzgerald.
language of flowers
means of artistic, poetic, emotional, literary or cryptological communication through the use of or arrangement of flowers
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
Spring-heeled Jack
English folklore legendary character
Victorian morality
Behaving in the Victorian era
Muscular Christianity
Religious and social movement
Victorian painting
style of painting in the UK in the Victorian era
Jugum penis
anti-masturbatory device
Victorian decorative arts
style of art from 1837 to 1901
hidden mother
photography genre
Extravaganza
theatrical genre
letter manual
a publication that gives practical instructions on letter-writing and letter-reading
fairy painting
Victorian painting genre and movement
giraffe piano
early version of the upright piano