I feel like the Victorian era already gets enough hate for being less "enlightened" than our own. (No doubt they would feel the same about us.) Much like the 1

I feel like the Victorian era already gets enough hate for being less "enlightened" than our own. (No doubt they would feel the same about us.) Much like the 1950s, I feel like it's an era which gets a bad rap because of the way the people immediately following it reacted against it and then proceeded to write all the history books about how much better their own era was than the one that preceded it. In any case it gets rather tedious when one can't admire something like Victorian architecture and fashion without someone butting in to tell you that the Victorians were less morally enlightened than us.