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* ''Series/The1900House'' is a short series where a modern (1999) English family roleplay living as a middle class family in late Victorian London. It was the first on a series dealing with different time periods.

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This is a trope that is [[TruthInTelevision disturbingly accurate]] at times. The Victorian Era also [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain happened in the rest of the country]], of course, but, as we all know, BritainIsOnlyLondon. It (suitably altered) is also the default setting for {{Steampunk}} stories or a GaslampFantasy.

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This is a trope that is [[TruthInTelevision disturbingly accurate]] at times. The Victorian Era also [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain happened in the rest of the country]], of course, but, as we all know, BritainIsOnlyLondon. It (suitably altered) is also the default setting for {{Steampunk}} stories or a GaslampFantasy.



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* French comics ''Professor Bell'', by Joann Sfar.

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* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'', being based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the Jules Verne novel]], start and end in London.

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* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and [[/index]]and[[index]] ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'', being based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the Jules Verne novel]], start and end in London.



* ''Film/ShanghaiKnights''

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* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': The Creator/BramStoker novel and many of [[{{Dracula}} its adaptations]].
* Ankh-Morpork on the Literature/{{Discworld}} is more like modern New York set in Victorian London, with bits of Renaissance Florence. And dwarfs. And trolls. There are even a few neurotic vampires with hilarious accents.
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' takes place in alternate Victorian era where the Industrial Revolution is powered by reanimated cadavers called "Frankensteins".
* ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is sort-of one of the trope codifiers.
* Many of the works of Creator/CharlesDickens, such as famously ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', ''Literature/BleakHouse'', and ''Literature/OliverTwist'', to the extent that such settings are often described as "Dickensian." Not all of Dickens' novels qualify, technically speaking, though. ''Literature/LittleDorrit'' takes place in 1826 and ''Literature/ThePickwickPapers'' in 1827-8, in the Georgian Era. Those were published in the Victorian years, though, and at least once Dickens made an anachronistic reference to "Her Majesty" or some other development that had taken place between the time they were set and the time he was writing. He also wrote things like ''Literature/HardTimes'', which is set OopNorth.
* ''Literature/ALittlePrincess''
* This is the setting of the majority of the ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' stories.
* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and most of its adaptations feature this as the Time Traveler's own era.
* ''Literature/{{The War of the Worlds|1898}}'' centers around the exodus of London at one point. And it's where the Martians die. In 1898.
* ''Literature/TheWitchWatch'' is set here for the most part.



* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' by Creator/OscarWilde
* Creator/AnnePerry's mystery novels are very conscious attempts to subvert the common Victorian stereotypes, by playing up the tension between facade and the reality of human emotion. When this works, it works brilliantly; however, when it doesn't, the result tends to be lurid melodrama that makes [=LeFanu=] look plausible.
* The second trilogy of the ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'' depicts a furry version of Franchise/SherlockHolmes--not connected in any way to ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' or ''Anime/SherlockHound'', but a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weasel]] by the name of Montegu Sylver living in a Victorian London FantasyCounterpartCulture [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals full of furries]].
* ''Literature/DarknessVisible''
* ''Literature/TheDollFactory'', a historical fiction novel (and Creator/ParamountPlus adaptation) involving the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the run-up to the Great Exhibition of 1851.
* Philip Pullman's ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' series.
* Molly Hughes's ''A London Family'' trilogy does for middle-class London what Flora Thompson's ''Literature/LarkRiseToCandleford'' did for rural England at largely the same time (1870s-90s). Thompson and Hughes even wrote their books at the same time (1930s).

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* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' by Creator/OscarWilde
* Creator/AnnePerry's mystery novels are very conscious attempts to subvert
''Literature/AnnoDracula'' is the common Victorian stereotypes, by playing up the tension between facade and the reality of human emotion. When this works, it works brilliantly; however, when it doesn't, the result tends to be lurid melodrama that makes [=LeFanu=] look plausible.
* The second trilogy of the ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'' depicts
Age if Queen Victoria became a furry version of Franchise/SherlockHolmes--not connected in any way to ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' or ''Anime/SherlockHound'', but a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weasel]] by the name of Montegu Sylver living in a Victorian London FantasyCounterpartCulture [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals full of furries]].
* ''Literature/DarknessVisible''
* ''Literature/TheDollFactory'', a historical fiction novel (and Creator/ParamountPlus adaptation) involving the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the run-up to the Great Exhibition of 1851.
* Philip Pullman's ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' series.
* Molly Hughes's ''A London Family'' trilogy does for middle-class London what Flora Thompson's ''Literature/LarkRiseToCandleford'' did for rural England at largely the same time (1870s-90s). Thompson and Hughes even wrote their books at the same time (1930s).
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* Sarah Waters's ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'', published in 2002 and made into a BBC drama in 2005, is a [[spoiler:gay and lesbian]] take on the setting, with dips into the mental health tropes of the era, including a stereotypical BedlamHouse plot and a man after an inheritance.
* One of the downtime locations of ''Literature/TimeScout''. The two latter books take place during UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's time of operation.
* The ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' series takes place here.
* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', prequel trilogy to the ''[[Literature/TheMortalInstruments Mortal Instruments]]'' series, takes place here.
** ''Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale'', one of the short stories of Literature/TheBaneChronicles, also takes place here.
* Michel Faber's ''Literature/TheCrimsonPetalAndTheWhite'', also adapted for television by the BBC in 2011.



* Some of the mirror gates in ''Literature/TheStoneheartTrilogy'' lead to this era. Arguably the most important one leads to the Frost Fair, 1888, where it turns out that it's true that "you can't change the past, even if it hasn't happened yet".
* ''Literature/{{Dodger}}'' and the non-fiction spin-off ''Dodger's Guide to London''.

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* Some of Michel Faber's ''Literature/TheCrimsonPetalAndTheWhite'', also adapted for television by the mirror gates BBC in ''Literature/TheStoneheartTrilogy'' lead to this era. Arguably the most important one leads to the Frost Fair, 1888, where it turns out that it's true that "you can't change the past, even if it hasn't happened yet".
* ''Literature/{{Dodger}}'' and the non-fiction spin-off ''Dodger's Guide to London''.
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* ''MrWarrensProfession'' takes place half in Victorian London and half in Victorian Manchester.
* ''Literature/TheDiariesOfTheFamilyDracul''

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* ''MrWarrensProfession'' ''Literature/{{Dodger}}'' and the non-fiction spin-off ''Dodger's Guide to London''.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': The Creator/BramStoker novel and many of [[{{Dracula}} its adaptations]].
* Ankh-Morpork on the Literature/{{Discworld}} is more like modern New York set in Victorian London, with bits of Renaissance Florence. And dwarfs. And trolls. There are even a few neurotic vampires with hilarious accents.
* Many of the works of Creator/CharlesDickens, to the extent that such settings are often described as "Dickensian." Not all of Dickens' novels qualify, technically speaking, though. ''Literature/LittleDorrit''
takes place half in 1826 and ''Literature/ThePickwickPapers'' in 1827-8, in the Georgian Era. Those were published in the Victorian years, though, and at least once Dickens made an anachronistic reference to "Her Majesty" or some other development that had taken place between the time they were set and the time he was writing. He also wrote things like ''Literature/HardTimes'', which is set OopNorth.Those taking place in Victorian London and half include:
** ''Literature/BleakHouse''
** ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''
** ''Literature/DavidCopperfield''
** ''Literature/OliverTwist''
* ''Literature/TheDollFactory'', a historical fiction novel (and Creator/ParamountPlus adaptation) involving the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
in the run-up to the Great Exhibition of 1851.
* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' takes place in an alternate
Victorian Manchester.
era where the Industrial Revolution is powered by reanimated cadavers called "Frankensteins".
* ''Literature/TheDiariesOfTheFamilyDracul''Sarah Waters's ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'', published in 2002 and made into a BBC drama in 2005, is a [[spoiler:gay and lesbian]] take on the setting, with dips into the mental health tropes of the era, including a stereotypical BedlamHouse plot and a man after an inheritance.
* The ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' series takes place here.



* A majority of ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'' is set in Victorian London.

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* A majority ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', prequel trilogy to the ''[[Literature/TheMortalInstruments Mortal Instruments]]'' series, takes place here.
** ''Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale'', one
of ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'' is set in Victorian London.the short stories of Literature/TheBaneChronicles, also takes place here.
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* Molly Hughes's ''A London Family'' trilogy does for middle-class London what Flora Thompson's ''Literature/LarkRiseToCandleford'' did for rural England at largely the same time (1870s-90s). Thompson and Hughes even wrote their books at the same time (1930s).
* ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'': Lady Trent's home base is in Falchester, her LowFantasy world's equivalent of London, and the technology and social attitudes are similar to Victorian ones. Most of the action takes place in foreign countries, though.
* ''Literature/MrWarrensProfession'' takes place half in Victorian London and half in Victorian Manchester.
* Creator/AnnePerry's mystery novels are very conscious attempts to subvert the common Victorian stereotypes, by playing up the tension between facade and the reality of human emotion. When this works, it works brilliantly; however, when it doesn't, the result tends to be lurid melodrama that makes [=LeFanu=] look plausible.
* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' by Creator/OscarWilde
* This is the setting of the majority of the ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' stories.
%%* Philip Pullman's ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' series.
* Some of the mirror gates in ''Literature/TheStoneheartTrilogy'' lead to this era. Arguably the most important one leads to the Frost Fair, 1888, where it turns out that it's true that "you can't change the past, even if it hasn't happened yet".
* ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is sort-of one of the trope codifiers.
* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and most of its adaptations feature this as the Time Traveler's own era.
* One of the downtime locations of ''Literature/TimeScout''. The two latter books take place during UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's time of operation.
* A majority of ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'' is set in Victorian London.



* ''Literature/{{The War of the Worlds|1898}}'' centers around the exodus of London at one point. And it's where the Martians die. In 1898.
* The second trilogy of the ''Literature/WelkinWeasels'' depicts a furry version of Franchise/SherlockHolmes--not connected in any way to ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' or ''Anime/SherlockHound'', but a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin weasel]] by the name of Montegu Sylver living in a Victorian London FantasyCounterpartCulture [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals full of furries]].
* ''Literature/TheWitchWatch'' is set here for the most part.



* ''Series/{{Bramwell}}''

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* ''Series/CarnivalRow'' is set in the Burgue, a Victorian-esque GaslampFantasy city-state.



* ''Series/{{Quacks}}'': a sitcom about four Victorian doctors
* ''Series/RipperStreet'': based on the UsefulNotes/JacktheRipper killings

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* ''Series/{{Quacks}}'': ''Series/{{Quacks}}'' is a sitcom about four Victorian doctors
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* ''Series/RipperStreet'': ''Series/RipperStreet'' is based on the UsefulNotes/JacktheRipper killings killings.



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': Steamland, with its entire Steampunk/Dieselpunk aesthetic, looks a lot like Victorian London (but with flying airships and other crazy advanced technology).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E1TreehouseOfHorrorXV Treehouse of Horror XV]]": The "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" story in this episode ''is'' this trope applied to the show.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': Steamland, with its entire Steampunk/Dieselpunk aesthetic, looks a lot like Victorian London (but with flying airships and other crazy advanced technology).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E1TreehouseOfHorrorXV [[index]]"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E1TreehouseOfHorrorXV Treehouse of Horror XV]]": The "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" story in this episode ''is'' this trope applied to the show.



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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'' protagonist Henry Morgan became immortal in 1815, and there are numerous flashbacks. Most notable for the Victorian Era are his wife's reappearance in 1865 and Henry being consulted on the Jack the Ripper case in 1888.

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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'' protagonist Henry Morgan became immortal in 1815, 1814, and there are numerous flashbacks. Most notable for the Victorian Era are his wife's reappearance in 1865 and Henry being consulted on the Jack the Ripper case in 1888.



* Series/{{Quacks}}: a sitcom four Victorian doctors

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* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', being based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the Jules Verne novel]], start and end in London.

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* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', ''Film/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2004'', being based on [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays the Jules Verne novel]], start and end in London.
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* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' uses this often in flashbacks to Helen Magnus and The Five, one of whom was in fact Jack the Ripper (rounding out the group were the Invisible Man, Sherlock Holmes, and Nikola Tesla).

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* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' ''Series/{{Sanctuary|2007}}'' uses this often in flashbacks to Helen Magnus and The Five, one of whom was in fact Jack the Ripper (rounding out the group were the Invisible Man, Sherlock Holmes, and Nikola Tesla).
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* ''[[Film/ShanghaiNoon Shanghai Knights]]''

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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney features this and Meiji-era Japan as its setting.


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