From a house plans website...

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Queen Anne-style house plans are what comes to mind for many people when they think of Victorian-style homes (Queen Anne is a popular subset of Victorian style).

Now children, who can tell me what is wrong with this statement?

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[windtear.livejournal.com]

Number one, wasn't Queen Anne the ruler of England about a hundred or so years before Victoria? And weren't the objects labelled 'Queen Anne style' developed around then (it would be the 1750s or thereabouts)?

In short, Queen Anne and Victorian are nowhere near each other in stylistic or temporal terms.

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You have just restored a little of my faith in humanity. Thank you.

Yes, Queen Anne was a Stuart, reigned 1702-1714. That's one hundred and five years before Victoria was even born. There's a style named after Queen Anne, it's true to say... but it's not fucking Victorian.

Blenheim Palace, now that's dripping in Queen Anne... not least because the real Anne paid for a lot of it.

Victorian, on the other hand... Well, I'm not even sure why a style from the period 1837-1901 would be known as Victorian in America, given that she wasn't queen there.

[empressov.livejournal.com]

We still call styles by their English monarchial monikers--Victorian, Elizabethan, Georgian style, etc etc. Sometimes, say if you're in New Orleans which had much more Frensh influence, it'd be by their french monarch (e.g. Louis XIV style). I was recently pondering this and I'd guess it had a lot to do with the fact people who lived here and were building their homes or businesses weren't from here originally, wanted to still reflect the most fashionable things of their home world, and all in all still had to look to their european homelands for cues as to fashionable. There is a catch to one in particular---Georgian, depending on where you are, may be called Colonial style. Heh.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it makes sense, especially if it is the same as 'Victorian' in Britain... it just amuses me. In Europe, things tend to have different names, perhaps more due to language than geography or nationality.

Like, I think it's art deco that's known as Liberty in Italy, while in Continental Europe what we called 'Celtic' art is 'La Tene' and stuff like that.

It's all nonsense really.. but there's no way Queen Anne and Victorian could be confused or lumped togeher.