This was consistent with the Victorian idea that pleasant or beautiful surroundings would help ease the mental anguish of the inmates.

'It was the traditional Victorian idea of a school,' Marsh explains.

Freud rebelled against the Victorian idea that children are asexual.

They were a Victorian idea to get kids off the street.

This contributed to the Victorian idea of him as a minor lyricist.

I go back to the Victorian idea of quoting the subject.

The Victorian idea of inevitable progress had to be abandoned.

This went against the Victorian idea of the amateur gentleman sportsman.

Why should we subscribe to basically Victorian ideas about morality?

The interior was not harmed and still exhibits the Victorian idea of how a church should look.