THIS VICTORIAN LIFE: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology

From Victorian beauty regimes to 19th-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Chrisman and her husband decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. The more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century. Photos.