But even so, I have signed up to learn bartitsu, the esoteric and gentlemanly Victorian art of self defense. Before I chicken out I spot my instructor, Matt Franta, a dapper gentleman in a three-p ...

Indeed, there is plenty of fourth-wall-breaking tug-of-war over who gets to be the main character of this Gothic Victorian thriller ... Mrs. Sucksby and Richard “Gentleman” Rivers (Josiah ...

Think of bartitsu, the martial art used by ... very unlike a typical gentleman. But quite like a particular gentleman by the name of Edward Barton-Wright, who named the Victorian method of defense ...

The 19-year-old said she decided to dress full-time in Victorian clothing after watching the BBC show Gentleman Jack. She considers herself a modern-day replica of the character, played by Suranne ...