books.google.com.hk - Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform movement attracting thousands of people. From the Vegetarian Society's foundation in 1847, men, women and their families abandoned conventional diet for reasons as varied as self-advancement...https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Of_Victorians_and_Vegetarians.html?id=EH4AAwAAQBAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOf Victorians and Vegetarians