<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Victorian Life — World of Curious</title><description>Nineteenth-century habits, household objects, medicine and manners, in their own context.</description><link>https://worldofcurious.com/</link><language>en-au</language><atom:link href="https://worldofcurious.com/victorian-life/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Eight Everyday Victorian Habits That Seem Bizarre Now</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/victorian-habits-that-seem-bizarre/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/victorian-habits-that-seem-bizarre/</guid><description>Mourning rules, post-mortem photographs, arsenic wallpaper and a bathing machine. Eight Victorian habits, and the entirely logical reasons behind each one.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Victorian Life</category><category>victorian</category><category>social history</category><category>daily life</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item></channel></rss>