Despite their prim and proper reputation, Victorians knew how to party. In 19th-century Great Britain and the United States, parlor games — group games played inside, and often in parlors — were ...

Hear the phrase “parlor game” and you may conjure up a mental image of men and women in straight-laced, Victorian-era duds gathered around a fire in a stuffy, overly formal sitting room. You wouldn’t ...