Vegetarianism in the Victorian era was the advocacy and practice of meat-free diets in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. The organised movement developed from earlier religious and medical a
Interior of Northwood Villa, where the Vegetarian Society was founded in 1847
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Vegetarianism in the Victorian era
…Victoria (1837–1901). The organised movement developed from earlier religious and medical advocacy and took institutional form with the founding of the Vegetarian Society in 1847. The word "vegetarian" was in print by 1842 and came into wider use in the late 1840s. Victorian vegetarian organisations generally defined…
Presidents and vice-presidents of the Vegetarian Society in 1891
Vegetarian Society holiday centre in the 1920s
Title page of the first volume of the Vegetarian Messenger (1849)