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The Victorian period in Britain and America may seem to many to be the embodiment of traditional values, but when this era began in the mid-nineteenth century, they were anything but traditional.

  1. For many people the Victorian period in Britain and America may appear to be the embodiment of traditional values but they could actually be called traditional only in the mid-nineteenth century.
  2. The Victorian period in Britain and America was the embodiment of traditional values but by the mid-nineteenth century these values ceased to be traditional.
  3. Many may perceive the Victorian period in Britain and America as the embodiment of traditional values but when this Era began, i.e: in the mid-nineteenth, it was realized these values could not be called traditional.
  4. Contrary to the belief of many that the Victorian period in Britain and America is the embodiment of traditional values, in actuality the values were far from traditional then.

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4.Contrary to the belief of many that the Victorian period in Britain and America is the embodiment of traditional values, in actuality the values were far from traditional then.

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