1.   In terms of wages the family wage has been the norm, perpetuating a Victorian ideal of a male breadwinner with dependant wife and children.

2.   According to the liberal Victorian social ideal, museums cultivated good citizens who would then share in the general prosperity of a properly functioning democracy.

3.   Her independent spirit was far from the Victorian ideal of womanhood.

4.   He took the Victorian ideal of self-improvement and turned it into the modernist ideal of self-realization and self-expression.

5.   Sex roles became more distinct based on Victorian ideals of masculinity and femininity.

6.   Swept up in the Victorian ideal of marriage and motherhood, Apte opens with a dewy-eyed account of wedded bliss.

7.   The author opines, philosophically and ambivalently, about the fragility, even pointlessness, of old-fashioned Victorian ideals like duty, sacrifice and commitment.