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Speaking of more-than-proper... you'd ''better'' watch your step, guv'nor, as the moral tone of this period is, well, positively Victorian. If you're a woman, prepare to be able to defend your 'virtue' literally with your life. Conversely, if you're a man, be aware that any tampering at all with this fragile commodity may lead to 'either marriage, or breach of promise [lawsuit]!' Of course, underneath all this middle-class repression, everybody -- well, everybody male, anyway -- is a sex-mad brothel patron, the seedier the better, so it may not be ''all'' bad.
Other hallmarks of this period include fussy overstuffed parlours, big-eyed waifs locked in [[Boarding School of Horrors|sadistic boarding schools]] and workhouses who are forced to labor 23½ hours a day for a mere crust of bread, jolly people singing [[Christmas Songs|Christmas carols]], [[A Christmas Carol|old misers who yell "Humbug!"]], women in [[Pimped
Apart from the vampires (probably) and perhaps the coincidences, [[Truth in Television|a lot of this is disturbingly accurate]]. (The Fog was accurate, but was caused by all the coal smoke; as pointed out on [[Mad Men]] it's not a permanent climate and is now long gone.) The Victorian Era also [[Victorian Britain|happened in the rest of the country]], of course, but as we all know [[Britain Is Only London]].
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